Beena Annam
Beena Annam is the Technology Advancement Engineer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. She completed her Masters degree in Computer Science and is working on her PhD thesis, ‘Blind Source Separation in Hyperspectral Images’. She has a certificate in computer crime investigations and digital forensics, and is a Microsoft Certified Product Specialist. She has over thirteen years of experience working in IT.  Previously, she was Systems Administrator and Internet Content Analyst at the Irish Hotline. She was responsible for identifying emerging trends in web technology and P2P networking that allowed illicit users to advance their modes of operation in order to avoid detection. Ms. Annam was an academic lecturer at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland, and also lectured at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Kristen Anderson
Kristen Anderson joined the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in 2005 and is currently the Director of the Case Analysis Division.  She provides daily operational oversight of three analytical units: the Case Analysis Unit, the Background Check Unit, and the Special Analysis Unit, which includes the areas of Research, Attempted Abductions, and Sex Offender Tracking.  Anderson is a frequent presenter and trainer regarding sex offenders and related child-victimization issues across the United States and internationally. She is a subject-matter expert on sex offender issues and interacts frequently with national media.  Prior to joining NCMEC, Anderson served as Chief of Police for Port Townsend, Washington for almost six years.  Ms. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington.

Dan Armagh
Daniel Armagh received his law degree from the University of Oklahoma with honors where he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Achievement in the study of Legal Process in Contract Law.  Mr. Armagh also studied at Queen’s College, Oxford University, United Kingdom.  Mr. Armagh became Director of Legal Education at Fox Valley Technical College in August of 2004, and General Counsel of Federal Programs in 2008.  Among Mr. Armagh’s responsibilities as Director of Legal Education is to train attorneys, law enforcement, and other professionals how to investigate and prosecute crimes against children. Previously, Mr. Armagh developed the Legal Resource Division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and served as Division Director for five years and also served as Director of APRI’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse for five years.   Mr. Armagh has litigated cases involving child abuse for ten years and has litigated over 150 jury trials in this area of specialization. He has authored numerous articles published in a variety of journals and publications on the subject of crimes against children, most recently Search and Seizure of Electronic Evidence in Computer-Facilitated Crimes Against Children, Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 78, No. 9, March 2007

Christopher Armstrong
Mr. Armstrong is a High-Tech Crime Training Specialist in the High-Tech Crime Training Services department of SEARCH, where he coordinates and provides training on high-tech crime investigations and forensics. Mr. Armstrong retired from the San Diego Police Department in 2006 after more than 27 years of service. When he retired, he was Lead Investigator for the ICAC grant in San Diego County. In this role, he was involved in both proactive and reactive investigations, forensic investigations, computer maintenance, office network and networking hardware, and grant financial planning. Immediately prior to his ICAC assignment, he spent 6-plus years as a Child Abuse Investigator, investigating every type of child abuse, including child homicides.

Autumn Ater
Autumn is a victim advocate whose disabled son was sexually assaulted by a personal care attendant in their home.  She and her family fought to be sure that the perpetrator was prosecuted and advocated for their son’s rights. Her son passed away in 2006 due to complications related to his disabilities. She founded a support group and ministry called A Hole in My Heart. A Hole in My Heart, serves mothers whose hearts are broken from the loss of a child. Autumn is working towards her Masters Degree in Faith Based Counseling.

Rami Badawy
Mr. Badawy is a Senior Attorney and Chief of Publications for the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse at the National District Attorneys Association. He oversees outreach in the areas of child homicide, physical abuse, and the Crawford line of cases. Mr. Badawy trains on a variety of topics, including the link between domestic violence and child abuse, cultural competency in the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and domestic sex trafficking of minors. As an Assistant District Attorney in Onondaga County, N.Y., Mr. Badawy prosecuted domestic violence and sexual assault and child sexual and physical abuse cases.  He also conducted sex offender risk assessment hearings and prosecuted criminal violations of New York’s sex offender notification laws.  Mr. Badawy also served on the Board of Directors of the McMahon-Ryan Child Advocacy Center in Syracuse, N.Y., and was a member of the Syracuse Area Domestic and Sexual Violence Coalition. In 2007, Mr. Badawy received the Sister Mary Vera Recognition award for his work with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Mr. Badawy worked as an attorney for Syracuse University, where he helped to improve the institution’s response to incidents of domestic violence and sexual assault on campus.  In 2008, he received the Syracuse University Department of Public Safety Recognition Award.  He also worked briefly as an attorney for a civil law firm. Mr. Badawy received his J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law, and his B.A. from Cornell University.

Linda A. Baldwin
Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Justice’s SMART Office, Ms. Baldwin served as a project manager for the New York State Unified Court System’s Office of Court Administration, where she planned and implemented ground-breaking problem-solving court initiatives on behalf of the Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Court Operations and Planning.  During her seven-year tenure, Ms. Baldwin implemented and expanded statewide initiatives for New York State’s sex offense, mental health and drug treatment courts.    As part of her work on the New York State Sex Offense Court Initiative, Ms. Baldwin organized training programs designed to teach and promote best practices for managing the high risk population of sex offenders. Furthermore, Ms. Baldwin led an effort to create the Initiative’s Mission Statement and Key Principles, which were designed to guide and promote uniformity among these courts.  Ms. Baldwin personally provided technical assistance to the first five sex offense courts in New York State.   Prior to joining the New York State Unified Court System, Ms. Baldwin spent eight years in private practice, concentrating in commercial litigation, real estate and zoning law.  She began her legal career as a law clerk for New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Gary S. Stein after receiving her law degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1993.   Before attending law school, Ms. Baldwin worked for five years for the City of New York’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Department of City Planning.  Ms. Baldwin received a master’s degree in urban planning from the New York University Wagner School of Public Service in 1989, and a bachelor of arts degree from Amherst College in 1985.

Jonathan Bame
Jonathan holds a B.S. In Criminal Justice from Appalachian State University and spent 12 years as police officer and detective for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department before becoming a U.S Postal Inspector in 2005. Inspector Bame has worked assignments in Mail Fraud investigations and is currently assigned to the Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in Washington DC.

Mike Barker
Mike Barker has been with the FBI for two and a half years in the Chicago Field Office.  He has a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work from Eastern Washington University.  Prior to his career in the Bureau, Mike worked as a Clinician for the Idaho Department of Children and Family Services, Child Protection Division, where he did clinical and therapeutic work with child and teen victims of child abuse.

Mike Barry
Sergeant Mike Barry has over 35 years of law enforcement experience. He began his career with the Galveston County Sheriff's Office before going to the Santa Fe Police department where he eventually became the Chief of Police. Mike later returned home to the Galveston County Sheriff's Office and has been in the Criminal Investigations Division for CID for 15 years. He worked as a major crimes investigator until becoming the supervisor of the newly formed Special Crimes Unit, which has a focus on covert operations.

Amy Barton
Dr. Amy Barton is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Childrens Medical Center of Dallas.  In addition, she is Secretary of the Board of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Texas Regional Office.  Dr. Barton’s research interests include risk factor for child sexual abuse, and factors contributing to child neglect.  Her clinical interests include child exploitation, recovered missing children, and recovered runaway children.

Terri Bauer
Terri developed and directs the Collin County Juvenile Sex Offender program. She has been working with kids with sexual issues for 16 years. Over the years she has presented at many conferences to train others in working with youth who have sexual behavior problems. She is committed to educating others about the dynamics of these youth and their families with an understanding that they can and do change with comprehensive treatment and supervision.

Catherine Bass
Catherine Bass is Director of Program Services for Children’s Advocacy Center of Texas in Austin, Texas (CACTX), where she provides training, technical assistance and monitoring to local CACs. Prior to joining CACTX, Catherine served as Executive Director for the Children’s Advocacy Center of the South Plains (CACSP) in Lubbock, Texas.  She has also worked with children at several other non-profits including serving as a Program Director for both the Boys and Girls Clubs’ of Lubbock and Mentoring Works! a program of the Volunteer Center of Lubbock. Catherine earned her Bachelor of Science, Child Development and Family Studies from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.

Keith Becker
Keith is an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia since 2005.  He has tried over 60 cases, including 25 jury trials, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.  Keith was the lead prosecutor in a multi-jurisdictional online child exploitation investigation in 2009, which involved cooperating defendants.  That investigation resulted in the successful prosecution of more than eight individuals, including multiple hands-on offenders, many of whom were parents, guardians or other relatives of children being sexually abused or in danger of such abuse.

Jason Belanger
Jason Belanger is a 21 year veteran of the Windsor Police Service in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, currently assigned to the Internet Child Exploitation Unit.  He has been conducting such investigations full time for 4 years and part-time for over 7 years.  He is also a Computer Forensic Analyst and instructs Peer To Peer Flie Sharing Forensics at the Canadian Police College in Ottawa, Ontario, focusing mainly on the LimeWire 5.X client.

Marc Bennett
Marc Bennett has been a prosecutor in Kansas for 15 years.  He is currently assigned as the Deputy District Attroney in charge of Trial Division II, devoted to the prosecution of sex crimes, domestic violence, and elder abuse.  Marc is the Sex Crimes Section Chief for the Kansas County and District Attorney's Association.   He has made presentations to the Kansas Legislature; the National Advocacy Center in South Carolina; the FBI annual CODIS symposium (Fall 2006); the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center; the Mid-States Homicide Investigator's Association (regarding Sexual Homicide for the Capital Murder conviction of serial rapist Douglas Belt in 2007).  Marc is a member of the board of directors of the Wcihita Area Sexual Assault Center (WASAC) and a faculty member of Finding Words Kansas.

Rodney Bergeron
Detective Rodney Bergeron has served with the Irving Police Department for 24 years.  During this his career he has worked in the Patrol Division, the Criminal Investigation Division, the Gang Unit, the Youth Unit, and the Community Services Division as a School Resource Officer.  He has been assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division, Domestic Violence Unit for the past 3 ½ years as an Investigator working Child Abuse cases and other Family Violence offenses.  In this assignment he currently works in the unit Investigating Missing Persons, Runaways, and some Child Abuse cases.  Detective Bergeron also assists with a program for first time Juvenile Offenders.

Jon Berroya
Jon Berroya is the Legal Director for Global Law Enforcement and Security at Yahoo! Inc.  Mr. Berroya’s responsibilities include handling legal issues related to information security, network abuse, and Yahoo!’s response to legal process that requesting Yahoo! user data  in both criminal and civil matters.  Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Berroya was an associate in the Washington DC office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP and also served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office.

Dave Bishop
Mr. David I. Bishop is a High-Tech Crime Training Specialist in the High-Tech Crime Training Services Program of SEARCH, where he coordinates and provides training on high tech crime investigations and forensics. Before joining SEARCH in 2009, Mr. Bishop served in the Grass Valley PD for 25 years. He worked most recently as a patrol sergeant and led the agency’s special incident team and various community- and problem-oriented policing teams. Mr. Bishop has considerable experience in communications and information systems planning, implementation, management, and support. While at the Grass Valley PD, he was responsible for the implementation, configuration, administration, and maintenance of the department’s network environment, including servers, workstations, and user profiles.

Art Bohanan
Arthur M. Bohanan is an internationally award winning patented inventor, researcher, lecturer, writer, and certified latent print examiner. With over 48 years in the study and practical application of forensics, Art has received many distinguishing awards including a doctorate in science and technology for his pioneering research involving children's fingerprints. He has completed research at the University of Tennessee's "Body Farm", with the FBI, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well as being a founding father of the National Forensic Academy at the University of Tennessee. Each year, Art travels nationwide teaching the national Amber Alert Program, Child Fatality Investigation and Forensic Response to Missing and Abducted Children. He is a founding member and President of Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center, which serves the fourth judicial district of Tennessee.

Michael Bourke
Dr. Michael Bourke is the Chief Psychologist for the United States Marshals Service and the head of the USMS Behavioral Analysis Unit.  Prior to joining the Marshals Service he worked as a clinical psychologist in the Sex Offender Treatment Program and the civil commitment program at a federal prison in Butner, NC.  He is a graduate of the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute, and he is a regular consultant to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies on matters pertaining to sexual criminality and interviewing/interrogation techniques.  He is an adjunct faculty member at Nova Southeastern University and the U.S. Department of Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (DACA).

Steve Branigan
Steven Branigan is Founder and CEO of CyanLine LLC, a high-technology security solution provider with clients across the globe.  A former New Jersey police officer and a veteran of Bell Labs, Mr. Branigan has more than 16 years of network security and computer forensics experience. He has been honored by the United States Secret Service and the New Jersey State Police for his work. Mr. Branigan testified before the 107th U.S. Congress on the state of cyber security.  A respected industry author, Mr. Branigan published “High-Tech Crimes Revealed” in 2005 alongside numerous other writings and presentations.  Mr. Branigan is the 2nd VP for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association NorthEast Chapter, an active member in the Infragard program and an adjunct professor on graduate computing security topics at Monmouth University. He earned both his B.A. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Rutgers College, and earned his MBA from Columbia University.

Larry Braunstein
Lawrence Jay Braunstein is a partner in the law firm of Braunstein & Zuckerman, Esqs., in White Plains, New York. Since 1985 he has specialized in litigation involving allegations of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and abusive head trauma (shaken baby) cases. He regularly lectures as an invited speaker, both nationally and internationally, to judges, attorneys, medical and mental health professionals, law enforcement personnel (State and Federal), prosecutors (State and Federal), and child protection service personnel. Since 1999 he has served on the faculty of the New York City Police Department Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigation Course. In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he was named as one of the “Top Attorneys in the New York Metro Area” as published in the New York Times Magazine’s Super Lawyer Section, and one of the top Twenty-Five “Super Lawyers” in the Westchester County, New York area.

Johnathan Bridbord
Johnathan Bridbord joined the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice in 2007 and is a Lead Computer Forensic Specialist in the High Technology Investigative Unit of the CEOS. Among his duties, Mr. Bridbord conducts forensic analysis of seized computer systems and media, provides investigative and analytical support to prosecutors and law enforcement agents to identify online child pornography offenses and develops strategies for gathering electronic evidence. Prior to joining DOJ, Mr. Bridbord was the Senior Forensic Examiner in a prominent litigation-consulting firm. Prior to consulting, Mr. Bridbord served as a Special Investigator in the Citywide Information Security, Architecture, Formulation and Enforcement Unit (CISAFE) of the City of New York Department of Investigation (DOI). Prior to working for DOI, Mr. Bridbord served honorably in the United States Air Force and Air National Guard as a Computer Systems Specialist. He is certified as an Information Assurance Security Officer (IASO), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), CERT Certified Computer Security Incident Handler (CSIH), Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI), Certified Information Forensics Investigator (CIFI), EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE), AccessData Certified Examiner (ACE) and Seized Computer and Evidence Recovery Specialist (SCERS).

Alexis Brignoni
Alex Brignoni has been a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 2007. He is currently assigned to the Innocent Images Task Force in the Tampa Division – Orlando Resident Agency. Prior to joining the FBI, he obtained a BS in Computer Science and MBA in Management of Information System as well as working as a Computer Network Administrator for over four years.

Don Brister
Don Brister joined BlackBag Technologies in 2007 as a digital forensic analyst. With nearly 30 years law enforcement experience, he offers a wealth of experience in various investigative roles involving the investigation of child exploitation and computer crime. His background includes serving as the lead investigator in numerous major, multi-agency investigations. Prior to joining BlackBag, he served as an instructor for the California Department of Justice, training law enforcement investigators in the areas of high technology and Internet investigations and digital evidence recovery.

Heather Brown
Heather Brown has been a prosecutor in Orange County, California for the past 12 years. After having received her law degree from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, she worked for the Los Angeles County Probation Department in their narcotics testing unit and she clerked at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for 3 years. Heather has worked in the sexual assault unit for the past 5 years, and has convicted 100’s of child molesters, rapists, and sexual deviants. Heather has handled many high profile cases involving priests, schoolteachers, coaches, bus drivers, and babysitters.  Heather is currently assigned a caseload that specializes in handling cases involving multiple victims and the rape and sodomy of very young children. She has made presentations to local law enforcement agencies, CAST, UC Irvine, community service programs, and has lectured on “sex and the law” on numerous occasions at Cal State Fullerton. Heather has made presentations to the FBI on topics of “how to make cases better”, and presented a case study on the serial killer Randy Kraft at the FBI Highway Serial Killers Symposium in 2009.

Irish Burch
Irish Burch currently is the Senior Program Director for the Forensic Interview Program at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center in Dallas, Texas.  She is responsible for conducting forensic interviews, supervising and training staff, and providing case consultation to other professionals in the areas of forensic interviewing.  Irish has worked in the child abuse field for the past 15 years and interviewed thousands of children.

Jeff Burge
Detective Burge is a 21-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. During his career he has worked in a uniformed capacity in Patrol, SWAT, and the Gang Unit. As a detective, he has worked in Narcotics, and spent 7 years investigating sex crimes against children in the Child Exploitation Unit. He is currently assigned to the Criminal Intelligence Unit, Protective Services Squad.

Mary-Ann Burkhart
Mary-Ann Burkhart, J.D. is the Training Director for the Office of the State’s Attorney’s for Baltimore City, Maryland and is responsible for the training and mentoring programs for the over 200 attorneys in the office.  A former homicide prosecutor, she was a Senior Attorney with NDAA’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse prior to coming to Baltimore in 2003.  With NDAA from 1997 to 2003, she traveled worldwide and taught extensively on all aspects of child physical and sexual abuse and child homicide cases.  She also published numerous articles and book chapters on various issues relating to investigating and prosecuting cases of child physical and sexual abuse. She began her prosecution career at the Miami-Dade County State’s Attorney’s Office, where she specialized in family violence and child abuse cases.  She graduated cum laude from Barry University and received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School of Law. For her work in the area of child abuse, she received the 2001 Professional Achievement Award from Barry University.

Ben Butler
As the Director of Network Abuse for GoDaddy.com, Ben Butler and his team have become experts and industry leaders in dealing with all forms of network abuse.  This includes spam, phishing, hacking, copyright violation, child exploitation issues, and the network security problems that often accompany such abuses.  Mr. Butler comes from a strong technical background including several years as a network and email administrator at a Fortune 500 company.  He also has extensive experience in customer service and satisfaction, coupled with experience in both business management and marketing.

Robert Butterfield
Senior Special Agent (SSA) Robert "Rob" Butterfield graduated from Western Illinois University in 1985 with a degree in Law Enforcement.  From 1885 to 1994 he served in the United States Army as an Armor officer, and then as Explosive Ordinance Disposal Officer.  After finishing his duty in the Army, Mr. Butterfield worked as a Border Patrol Agent in El Paso, Texas.  In 1998, he went to work for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service as a Special Agent in Chicago, where he worked in the human trafficking group.  In 2007, SSA Butterfield transitioned to the Computer Forensics unit, in what is now known as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  Rob is currently in the SAC Chicago ICE regional forensics lab.  He has completed advanced coursework and training in Guidance Software's ENCASE, Access Data's FTK, IACIS, Paraben and more.  He is an AccessData Certified Examiner (ACE), along with BCERT, PCERT and A+, and is a member of HTCIA.

Dennis Carry
Dennis Carry has worked in law enforcement for 13 years. He has worked the last 6 years as a Detective investigating cases such as homicide, sexual assault, child exploitation (including Internet crimes against children) fraud, robbery and kidnapping in addition to other violent and felony crimes. Dennis also currently works as a Computer Forensic Examiner and has conducted over 200 digital forensic examinations. Dennis has received over 500 hours of training in the field of child sexual exploitation, which includes: child sexual abuse, child pornography and other child exploitation crimes. He has received over 200 hours of training relating to homicide investigations, interview and interrogation training. He has also received over 500 hours of training specific to computer forensics and incident response. Dennis has lectured during training sessions for the National College of District Attorney’s Association, has done school safety presentations, presented to the Nevada Technological Advisory Board, and testified at the Nevada State Legislature on child exploitation crimes. Dennis was sworn in as a Special United States Deputy Marshal through the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Innocent Images Task Force.

Bill Carson
Captain Bill Carson has thirty years experience as a police officer in the St. Louis metropolitan area. He is currently a commander with the Maryland Heights (MO) Police Department, serves as a Deputy Commander with the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis, and is a member of the State Child Fatality Review Panel in Missouri. He has a Masters Degree in Criminology & Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Upon completing his graduate studies, Captain Carson conducted interviews with incarcerated child molesters as part of two separate research projects. These interviews took place over a three-year period (2003-2005) at seven different prisons throughout the state of Missouri. More than 70 convicted child molesters were studied in detail for these two projects, including a unique series of interviews with eighteen women that had been convicted of molesting children.

Søren Christensen
Søren Christensen has been a police officer since 1987 – working in Computer Crime since 2002, where he has been working as a digital computer forensic examiner exclusively in the field of sexual exploitation of children – especially dealing with cases concerning grooming and P2P. In conjunction with this work, he runs the website www.fileshareforensics.org – dealing with the forensic examination of P2P clients.

Rachel Clark
Rachel Clark is an Assistant District Attorney in Dallas County, Texas.  Ms. Clark received her law degree from Texas Tech University in 2004 after graduating cum laude from the University of North Texas.  Immediately after graduation, Ms. Clark joined the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, having spent time in the Denton County District Attorney’s Office and the Lubbock County District Attorney’s Office.  For the last four years, she has been prosecuting Child Abuse cases exclusively.  In her time at the Dallas County Office, Ms. Clark has been in over 100 Jury Trials.   

Jim Clemente
Jim Clemente is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and former prosecutor for the New York City Law Department. During his 22-year career with the FBI, he has investigated cases from bank robberies to serial killers and child abductions.  He has also investigated public corruption, white collar and violent crime and has worked as an undercover broker on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange.  For over a decade he was an FBI Profiler.  Today he consults on criminal matters as part of the Academy Group Incorporated and civil matter as part of Park Deitz & Associates.  Jim also teaches and gives presentations around the world and writes, produces, and consults for several television productions.

Forrest Clevenstine
Detective Clevenstine has worked in law enforcement for 13 years, with his last seven years spent in investigations.  This includes two years as a School Resource Officer and five years as a Detective.  His specialty is forensic interviewing of children for sensitive crimes.  Forrest is also a Wisconsin certified Firearms and Defense and Arrest Tactics Instructor and a Team Leader for the department’s part-time SWAT Team.  Detective Clevenstine was the lead investigator for the Stancl case.

Carla Cline
Carla Cline has been actively involved with the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center since 1999.  She served as DCAC League President in 2005, after previously serving as Service Vice President, Development Vice President and “Racing for Hope” Chairman.  Carla has participated in every DCAC League fundraiser for the past ten years. She is currently on the Board of Trustees for the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, where she Co-Chairs the Development and Education Committee.  Carla is also PTA President, Athletic Booster Club President and is an active member of the Young Men’s Service League.  She has been married for 25+ years and has three athletic sons, one a graduate of Arizona State University, one attending San Diego State University and one a High School Senior.

Philip Coduti
Special Agent Coduti began his federal criminal justice career in 2002 with the United States Customs Service in the Chicago area.  Prior to joining the USCS Special Agent Coduti worked at both the local and county level. Special Agent Coduti is currently assigned to ICE SAC Chicago OI working in the Northern District of Indiana.   Over the last two decades Phil has worked in a number of areas of criminal justice to include training, program development, narcotics, intelligence, financial crimes and child exploitation.  Phil’s educational background is in criminal justice, political science and public policy.  He has instructed at a number of colleges and universities at the undergraduate and graduate level. 

Eliott Cohen
Eliott Cohen has been a sworn law enforcement officer with the Maryland State Police (MSP) for more than twelve (12) years and currently holds the rank of Sergeant. Since March 2003, he has been assigned to the Maryland State Police Criminal Investigation Division, Computer Crimes Section (CCS) that is responsible for conducting criminal investigations relating to crimes facilitated by the use of computers and other areas of high technology. As a member of the Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, he has conducted numerous criminal investigations relating to online child sexual exploitation.  These proactive and reactive investigations often result in a multijurisdictional cooperative investigation with allied agencies. As a Maryland Police Training Commission certified police instructor, Sergeant Cohen regularly lectures, trains, and provides technical assistance in the area of Technology Facilitated crimes.  He is often sought for guidance and assistance in the area of technology and Internet related investigations because of his exposure and independent research of emerging technology.  Sergeant Cohen holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ where he minored in Psychology.

Don Colcolough
Don Colcolough is the Director of Investigations & Cyber Security at America Online, Inc.  He has spent his entire AOL tenure of seventeen years in the network security, investigations, technical countermeasures, digital evidence, and forensics arena.  Mr. Colcolough managed AOL’s Network Security and Investigations Department (NSI) for eight years prior to joining the AOL Corporate Legal Department in 2002.  He has testified as a subject matter expert in over 300 US Federal, State, US military and international trials involving criminal abuse on or related to the AOL-owned networks. Over half of these trials involve computer-facilitated crimes against children.

James Cole
James "Jim" Cole is a Senior Special Agent (SSA) and Digital Forensic Agent with the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  He has been assigned to a child sexual exploitation unit for the past seven years and prior to that was a detective working violent crimes including child sexual abuse and homicide.  SSA Cole helped form the Inter-agency Child Exploitation Prevention Team (INTERCEPT), an Oregon tri-county task force devoted to the pro-active investigation of non-traditional child sexual exploitation and conducts computer forensics for federal prosecutions arising from the team.  Jim has been involved in numerous child sexual exploitation investigations and the rescue of child victims over his past 17 years of law enforcement.

Catherine Connell
Catherine Connell is a state licensed Clinical Social Worker.  Ms. Connell received her Bachelors of Social Work at Michigan State University.  She received her Masters of Social Work, at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.  Ms. Connell is currently employed with the FBI as a Child/Adolescent Forensic Interviewer with the Office of Victim Assistance.  She provides interviews, consultation and training for FBI Agents, Assistant United States Attorney’s, and other federal and state law enforcement. Prior to the Bureau, Ms. Connell was the Director of Intervention and Treatment, at CARE House, a Child Advocacy Center in Pontiac, Michigan.  She was responsible for the collaboration of the multidisciplinary team, conducting and supervising forensic interviews, and the coordination of follow-up services for child victims and their families.  Prior to this, she was the Forensic Interviewer for seven years, in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Ms. Connell was on the Executive committee for MACE, a multi-jurisdictional task force for Internet crimes. She developed an Internet Safety program for professionals and the community to educate regarding dangers children encounter on the Internet. Ms. Connell has been qualified as an expert witness on multiple subjects in civil and criminal cases, in Federal and local jurisdictions. She is adjunct staff at the Macomb County Police Academy. Ms. Connell frequently provides training for a wide variety of professionals including law enforcement, the FBI and the State Department.

Michael Conrad
Special Agent Michael Conrad is a 23-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  After prior assignments in the National Security, Counter-Terrorism, and Russian Organized Crime programs, he was assigned to the Violent Crime and Major Offenders (VCMO) program in 1998.  He is currently the Phoenix FBI’s VCMO Crimes Against Children Coordinator, Innocence Lost / Child Prostitution Task Force Coordinator, and the Kidnapping Coordinator.  He is a member of the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) Team, a national quick-reaction flyaway team for missing and abducted children cases.  Michael is also the Primary National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crimes (NCAVC) Coordinator for the Phoenix FBI, and assists local agencies in obtaining Behavioral Analysis services and consultations from the FBI’s NCAVC unit in Quantico, Virginia.

A. Brant Cook
A. Brant Cook is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana. Mr. Cook’s focus is on the prosecution of cases involving the sexual exploitation of children, particularly as facilitated by the internet, as part of the federal government’s increasing emphasis on addressing the issue under Project Safe Childhood. Mr. Cook began his career with the Franklin County (Ohio) prosecutor’s office, where he prosecuted cases involving the physical and sexual abuse of women and children, and developed a specialization in the prosecution of cases involving the online sexual exploitation of children. Mr. Cook is a graduate of The Ohio State University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Michael Corricelli
For over 16 years, Mike Corricelli has been a federal agent primarily assigned to conducting child sexual and physical abuse investigations.  Since 2001, he has worked for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and currently serves as a child exploitation specialist investigating instances where the US Mails are used to exploit children. He has extensive experience conducting proactive undercover operations both online and via the mails. Prior to joining the USPIS, he was a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Mike holds a Master’s Degree in Forensic Sciences from the George Washington University. He is a member of the Pennsylvania ICAC and also an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA.

Matthew Cox
Dr. Matthew Cox is a board certified Child Abuse Pediatrician and is the medical director of the Referral and Evaluation of At-Risk Children (REACH)Program at Children's Medical Center Dallas.   He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.  Dr. Cox did pediatrics training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadephia.  Matt devotes most of his clinical and academic work to the care of abused and neglected children.

Marc Crandall
Marc Crandall serves as Products Counsel at Google Inc., where he addresses legal issues concerning the development and deployment of Google technology.  He also serves as principle legal adviser for matters involving child online protection.  Prior to joining Google, Mr. Crandall served as Assistant General Counsel with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  As principle legal adviser to the FBI Cyber Division, he provided legal counsel and policy advice concerning a number of cybercrime-related issues, particularly those involving Internet crimes against children.  Before joining the FBI, Mr. Crandall served as Corporations Counsel and Lead Counsel of Internet Compliance and Enforcement with the California Department of Corporations, California's investment and finance authority.  There, he developed policy and executed legal duties in the field of Internet forensics, undercover operations, evidence collection, litigation, and the application of evidentiary, privacy, and transactional laws to the Internet.  During this time, Mr. Crandall was appointed as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney with the United States Department of Justice, investigating and prosecuting violations of federal law.

Deborah Crane
Deborah Crane began her career in 1987 with legacy U.S. Customs Service and has worked all aspects of Customs law including drug smuggling, arms smuggling, money laundering and asset forfeiture.  In January 2007, Special Agent (SA) Crane was been assigned to the ICE Headquarters Child Exploitation Section at the Cyber Crimes Center (C3) in Fairfax, Virginia, as a National Program Manager.  In this position, SA Crane was responsible for overseeing various programs and operations that were conducted in the field relative to Child Exploitation investigations with a focus on Child Sex Tourism cases.  In April 2010, SA Crane transferred to the Cyber Training Section at C3 where she coordinates training classes and conferences for field agents involved in cyber-related investigations.

David Crump
Detective Crump is a 19-year veteran of the Wichita Police Department.  As an investigator, he has worked in Undercover Narcotics, Robbery and is currently assigned to the Exploited and Missing Child unit.  He is a forensic interviewer and specializes in child sexual and physical abuse cases.

Suzanne Dakil
Suzanne is a pediatrician at Children's Medical Center of Dallas. After completing residency in 2005, she did a fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Children's Medical Center of Dallas and the University of Texas Southwestern. She has recently joined faculty and is working with the REACH team. She is doing research into the risk factors for physical abuse and is interested in new ways to prevent childhood physical abuse.

Claude Davenport
Senior Special Agent (SSA) Claude Davenport is the former Chief of the Child Exploitation Section at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Cyber Crimes Center in Fairfax, Virginia.  Mr. Davenport retired in December 2007 after 35 years in law enforcement with 24 years of federal government service, but remains at Cyber Crimes Center as a Senior Special Agent, serving as the National Program Manager for the DHS HSI Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) and other international child exploitation investigative initiatives.  

Steven DeBrota
Steven D. DeBrota graduated in 1986 from Butler University in Indianapolis with majors in Physics and Political Science.  He then received a law degree in 1989 from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington.  After working in the litigation section of a large law firm, he was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney in 1991 with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Indiana.  As a member of the general crimes unit, he specializes in computer crime, political corruption, complex fraud cases and environmental crime.  He is also the Special Emphasis Coordinator for child exploitation cases, the Chairperson of the Indiana Interagency Environmental Crimes Task Force, and the Chairperson of the Project Safe Childhood Task Force.  He is also an expert in the investigation and prosecution of crimes on the Internet and the use of computer forensic evidence, having frequently lectured and written on these subjects.  He has trained agents, prosecutors and members of the public locally, nationally, and internationally.  Mr. DeBrota received the United States Department of Justice Director’s Award in 2000 for Superior Performance in this area.  In 2006, the Indiana Anti-Sexual Violence Movement presented Mr. DeBrota with an award for being its Outstanding Prosecutor of the Year.  Mr. DeBrota is also an Adjunct Instructor at Indiana University, where he teaches a class in cybercrime and digital evidence.

Catherine De La Paz
Detective De La Paz is a 25-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, co-developed the High Risk Victims and Trafficking Unit within the Child Exploitation Squad where she specializes in investigations involving the sexual abuse and exploitation of high-risk/chronic runaways, the victimization of children through prostitution/trafficking and cases involving children who have had repeated reports of victimization.  Detective De la Paz specializes in conducting interviews of adolescent children and non-compliant victims who may be deceptive, avoidant and/or tentative in their disclosures.  Detective Del La Paz has instructed for the Dallas Police Department Academy, the Tarrant County Regional Police Academy (Fatal Child Abuse and Neglect Program), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP,) the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and for various other agencies and conferences throughout the country. Detective De La Paz has also trained internationally regarding high risk youth/ prostitution interviews and investigations for law enforcement, prosecutors and NGO’s from Canada, Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, China, Myranmar, and Singapore.

William Donaldson
Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) William H. Donaldson is assigned to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit III, which deals with behavioral crimes involving child victims. SSA Donaldson was promoted to BAU III from the Indianapolis Division Muncie Resident Agency where he served as the division’s primary National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime coordinator and the team leader for the division’s Crisis Negotiation Team. Prior to joining the FBI, SSA Donaldson was a sworn police officer for the City of Atlanta, Georgia Police Department. He received a bachelor’s degree form Georgia State University and a master’s degree from Ball State University.
 
Jeffrey Dort
Jeff Dort has been a prosecutor for 20 years, most in the child abuse/exploitation area.  Mr. Dort works for the San Diego District Attorney's office and is currently in the Special Operations division.  He has completed 90+ jury trials in all phases of child abuse, including physical, sexual, exploitation, luring and homicide.  He teaches for various local, national and international organizations including ICE, DOJ, NDAA and NCMEC.  Mr. Dort assisted in starting the ICAC Task Force in San Diego and worked on the legal committee for the National ICAC Board of Directors.

Angela Downes
Angela Downes is a Senior Attorney for the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse at the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA).  In the course of working with victims of intimate partner violence, Ms. Downes has handled many cases involving children exposed to domestic violence and child endangerment and neglect.  Previously, Ms. Downes was the Attorney for Court Programs at the national organization of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). The largest nonprofit dedicated to drunk driving and impaired driving issues.  Ms. Downes also served as a prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in Dallas, Texas. While there she prosecuted cases from DWI to capital murder. She also served as the supervisor for the District Attorney’s two domestic violence courts.  In 2008, Ms. Downes was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to serve on Texas’ Board of Examiners for Psychologists.  The Board is the regulatory and licensing agency for psychologists in the state. In 2005, Ms. Downes was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court.  In 2001, she has also served on the Texas Violent Gang Taskforce.  She was a member of the Taskforce from 2001-2004. Ms. Downes is a graduate of Texas Wesleyan School of Law and Mercer University.

Darien Drake
Darien Drake is a Computer Forensic Specialist in the High Technology Investigative Unit (HTIU) located within the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.  Mr. Drake conducts forensic analysis of seized computer systems and media, provides investigative and analytical support to prosecutors and law enforcement agents in child exploitation cases, and develops strategies for gathering electronic evidence.

Nick Drehel
As an instructor for AccessData, Nick teaches AccessData's computer forensics courses. Nick has over 32 years of law enforcement experience prior to joining AccessData. Nick served as a police officer and investigator with the Houston Police Department. Nick’s experiences with the police department include property crimes investigations and homicide investigations. Nick assisted in the establishment of the Computer Crime/Forensic Unit in 1996 and the department’s policies and procedures for investigating computer crimes and conducting computer forensic examinations. Nick was assigned to the United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force in Houston. Nick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Leadership with Mountain State University and was the founder and principal owner of Digital Forensics of Texas, Inc. In 2004, Nick was on the board of directors of the International Center for Computer Forensic Accreditation, Standards and Testing. Nick has prepared and presented classes, lectures, and seminars on topics of computer crime investigations and computer forensics to the University of Houston, The Houston Area Women in Policing Conference, and the Texas Gulf Coast Crime Prevention Association. Nick is on the Advisory Committee for Lee College in Baytown, Texas for their Computer Forensics program. Nick holds a large number of forensic and computer certifications; AccessData Certified Examiner, AccessData Certified Instructor, EnCase Certified Examiner, Certified in Homeland Security – Level 3, Certified ProDiscover Examiner, Paraben Certified Cell Phone Examiner, Microsoft Certified System Engineer, Comptia A+, Comptia Network+, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Education Certified Instructor. Nick is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), the American College of Forensic Examiners International where he is certified in Homeland Security, Level 3.

Mike Duffey
Mike Duffey has been a Law Enforcement Officer since 1994 beginning his Law Enforcement career as a patrol officer with the Tallahassee Police Department. In 2002 Mr Duffey began working as a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.  He is currently assigned to the Computer Crimes Center.  Mike is responsible for statewide computer crime investigations including Internet crimes against children.  Mike also conducts awareness and prevention presentations to various schools and civic organizations. Mike has also provided to law enforcement officers around the world on how to conduct Child Exploitation investigations. As a member of the Tallahassee Police Department and Florida Department of Insurance Mr. Duffey investigated, street crimes, narcotics, burglary, street crimes, and insurance fraud cases.  Mr. Duffey has worked with multiple federal, state, and local agency task forces in conducting Internet crimes against children investigations.  His current cases include network intrusion cases, Phishing scams, and denial of service attacks.  Mr. Duffey has a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from Florida State University School of Criminology.  Mike has completed his Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA) course work along with multiple child exploitation classes and computer forensics.

Matthew Dunn
Matt Dunn is the Section Chief for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Child Exploitation Section.  He is responsible for the management of the ICE Child Exploitation Program.  Section Chief Dunn has been in the ICE Child Exploitation Section for the past 5 ½ years.  He has worked in federal law enforcement for the past 12 ½ years.

R. Gregg Dwyer
R. Gregg Dwyer, M.D., Ed.D. is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Sexual Behaviors Evaluation, Research and Treatment Clinic and Laboratory of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science.  He is a former special agent with the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service with experience in criminal investigations, special operations, foreign counterintelligence, special protection & antiterrorism, training, research & development, and critical incident peer counseling.  He has held academic appointments in criminal justice programs at colleges and a state university in Maryland, Virginia and Arkansas and served as faculty for National Advocacy Center and National College of District Attorneys courses.  He is a consultant with the U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for United States Attorneys regarding Professional Wellness Program for attorneys and paralegals working on Internet crimes against children.  Regarding sexual offense cases, he has consulted with the Sexually Violent Predator Treatment Program, South Carolina (SC) Department of Mental Health; Sex Offender Treatment Program, SC Department of Juvenile Justice; SC Attorney General’s Office; SC Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services; Delaware Department of Justice and State Police; various public defender offices; private attorneys; public and private mental health clinicians.  Dr. Dwyer has conducted grant funded research, presented nationally and internationally, and has published as author or co-author peer reviewed articles and book chapters on sexual problem and offending behaviors and treatment.

Sandra Eastwood
Sandra Eastwood is a University of Missouri Law School graduate and has been an “in the trenches” felony lead trial prosecutor for almost 14 years. Five years ago, she created the first child victim specialization unit within the Corpus Christi District Attorney’s office, and has served as lead prosecutor on many high profile child physical and sexual abuse jury trials. Eastwood has been featured on 20/20 and Good Morning America, and has received numerous awards for her service to and pursuit of justice for crime victims. In addition, she has trained other prosecutors and law enforcement officers on the successful investigation and prosecution of highly complex and controversial cases.

Charlie Eckholdt
Charlie Eckholdt is an Electronic Engineer and Program Manager over the FBI's Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Identification and Intercept (WII) Program.  He has worked very closely with Innocent Images National Initiative and their field agents to develop technologies that assist in the investigation of individuals involved with child pornography distribution and sexual exploitation.  He has been instrumental in the development of legally compliant technologies that detect and locate WLAN devices, as well provide legally authorized data intercept.  He has also made a significant impact on the use of technology to enhance investigations involving WiFi for counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal matters.

Darlene Ellison
Darlene Ellison has over 20 years of experience in the combined fields of child psychology and business, as well as serving as an avid volunteer in the areas of child abuse and domestic violence prevention.  Darlene brings a unique “twist” to victim recovery as a result of her own experiences as the ex-wife of a child predator, arrested in 2005 in an undercover FBI operation of NAMBLA.  She has raised her two children, the “secondary victims” in this scenario, to hold their heads high and make a difference in the lives of others.  In her efforts to teach parents, grandparents, educators and caregivers about the dangers of child predators, Darlene has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20 and Dateline NBC, as well as in Dallas’ D Magazine. In addition, Darlene has appeared in parent education videos for the Catholic Diocese of Dallas’ Safe Environment Plan and Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center.  She is the author of the award-winning book, “The Predator Next Door…Detect, Protect and Recover from Betrayal” and speaks all over the country on child abuse prevention, as an advocate for victims of child and family violence and as a motivational proponent of overcoming obstacles!

Robert Erderly
Robert Erdely has been a member of the Pennsylvania State Police since 1991. He currently is assigned to the Bureau of Criminal Investigations/Computer Crime Unit. He is the supervisor of the computer crime unit and the state run task force. He is also an investigator who has conducted hundreds of online investigations resulting in both state and federal prosecutions across the country. He is a certified forensic examiner who continues to perform forensic exams on seized computer systems and other media for local, state, and federal law enforcement. He is certified in both state and federal courts as a forensic expert.  He has many other professional certifications helping him conduct these online investigations, some of which are: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA INet+, Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator – Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (MCSE), received Security Certification for Microsoft Windows Server 2000 (MCSE:SECURITY), Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), Cisco Internetwork Professional (CCIP), Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professional, Cisco Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®), and LPIC-1 by the Linux Professional Institute.  He owned and operated an ISP for 10 years acting as their Senior Network Administrator. His responsibilities included managing hundreds of modems, RADIUS servers, DNS servers, Web servers, Mail servers, and SQL servers.

Dan Evans
Special Agent Dan Evans is assigned to the Cyber Crimes Squad of the San Diego FBI where he has been investigating child pornography cases for the past five years.  He works closely with the San Diego Internet Crimes against Children (ICAC) Task Force and other federal agencies providing investigative assistance and training.  Dan has a degree in Computer Science and has investigated numerous cases involving complex computer issues including encryption and wireless intruders.

Drew Fahey
Drew Fahey is the Director of Forensics at BlackBag Technologies, Inc. BlackBag Technologies is the premier Mac forensics, training, software and e-discovery solutions provider.  He has spent over fourteen years conducting incident response and forensic investigations. His extensive law enforcement and international experience stems from working with a broad cross-section of Fortune 500 corporations and government agencies around the world.  His experience started as a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, investigating a variety of computer crimes, including hacking, crimes against children, espionage, identity theft, and fraud cases.  After leaving the Air Force he created the Helix Incident Response and Forensics bootable CDROM, which became a standard triage tool used around the world. Drew is a graduate of Texas State University and holds a BS in computer science.

Linda Fair
Linda began her career as a social worker for the Wichita (Kansas) Public Schools in 1969 working with students, families and special education programs.  In 1985, she left the school system and went to work for the Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services, where she is an investigative social worker.

Gordon Fairman
Western Australia is the largest police jurisdiction in the world, comprising an area nearly half the size of the United States. Inspector Gordon Fairman has been a member of the Western Australia Police for more than 22 years and as the officer in charge of the Child Abuse Squad was responsible for the policing to 296 aboriginal communities throughout the Australian outback. In 2009 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to conduct international research into indigenous community child abuse response and he spent several months reviewing and attending in communities throughout the United States and Canada.

Robert Farley
Robert is a thirty-year veteran of the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department in Chicago, Illinois. As a highly decorated Detective, Child Exploitation Unit Supervisor and Deputy United States Marshal he has had over twenty-eight years experience investigating and supervising all aspects of child abuse crimes from sexual abuse to child homicide. As an internationally recognized expert, consultant, author and instructor in child abuse investigation techniques, Robert has conducted training seminars for tens of thousands of professionals in all 50 states. He has also conducted child abuse seminars in 23 different countries around the world on behalf of INTERPOL.

Byron Fassett
Sergeant Byron A. Fassett has been with the Dallas Police Department for 29 years.  In his current position he has specialized in conducting investigations involving the sexual abuse and exploitation of children for the past 19 years.  The Child Exploitation Squad, which Sergeant Fassett is responsible for supervising, handles approximately 1,100 cases a year, consists of 15 detectives, and is divided into three teams; the Investigations Team, the High Risk Victims and Trafficking Team, (HRVT) and the Internet Crimes Against Children Team (ICAC).  Sergeant Fassett started the High Risk Victims and Trafficking Team (HRVT) within the Dallas Police Department.  The HRVT Team specializes in investigations involving the sexual abuse and exploitation of high-risk/multiple runaways, child victims of prostitution/trafficking, and repeat victims of sexual abuse. Sergeant Fassett has presented both nationally and internationally on the issue of Domestic Trafficking of Children with regards to dynamics, investigative, and intervention techniques for law enforcement, prosecutors, and NGO’s in the United States, Canada, Thailand, and numerous other countries in Southeast Asia.

John Feeney
John Feeney assumed the duties of Assistant Chief for the Criminal Intelligence Branch of the Investigative Operations Division (IOD), United States Marshals Service in April 2009.  He is assigned as the supervisory intelligence research specialist for the National Sex Offender Targeting Center overseeing tactical and strategic intelligence functions pertaining to sex offender investigations.  He began working for the United States Marshals Service in May 2003, supporting operational components of the Division, including domestic investigations, international investigations, analytical support, and technical operations.  During that time, he received two Director’s Distinguished Group Awards given to the command staff for Operation FALCON and Operation FALCON II & III.   Prior to working for the Marshals Service, John worked as a regional manager for an information technology company that developed business management software applications.  He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maine and received a Masters of Science degree from George Mason University.

Josh Findley
Josh Findley is a Senior Special Agent with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who specializes in the investigation of child sexual exploitation crimes.  He is a highly experienced and highly regarded interviewer and interrogator.  Josh brings a wide array of law enforcement experience to his current position, including war crimes investigations in Kosovo, undercover narcotics investigations in Germany, and internal affairs investigations for the Department of the Treasury Office of Inspector General.  He is widely regarded as a tenacious investigator and a tireless advocate for the victims of child sexual exploitation.

Justin Fitzsimmons
Justin Fitzsimmons is a Senior Attorney with NDAA’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse in Alexandria, Virginia.  He organizes national conferences related to technology-facilitated crimes against children.  Additionally, Mr. Fitzsimmons also trains at other national, state and local events pertaining to technology-facilitated crimes against children as well as other sexual and physical abuse crimes against children.  Training prosecutors around the country is just one area of Mr. Fitzsimmons’ profession. He also updates a comprehensive outline of cases involving online exploitation of children and he also distributes a weekly case law update to hundreds of prosecutors and child abuse professionals both nationally, as well as globally.  Prior to coming to NDAA in June of 2009, Mr. Fitzsimmons was an Assistant State’s Attorney in Kane County, Illinois. While employed as an Assistant State’s Attorney, Mr. Fitzsimmons supervised the Special Prosecutions Unit; he also prosecuted cases of arson, elder abuse, complex financial crimes, Internet crimes, and public integrity. The unit was responsible for prosecuting all online crimes against children.  Additionally, before supervising SPU, Mr. Fitzsimmons was assigned to the child advocacy center where he prosecuted numerous cases involving sexual abuse and severe physical abuse to children, adults and disabled individuals.  His background includes attending SANE/SART training.  

Donna Fontana
Donna A. Fontana is the Forensic Anthropologist for the New Jersey State Police.  Since 1981, she has been providing assistance to New Jersey law enforcement agencies and county medical examiners in the forensic anthropological analysis of human skeletal remains.  Such analysis includes the determination and estimation of age, sex, race, stature and other information that may contribute to identification and cause of death.  She provides on-scene assistance in the search for and identification of buried, hidden, or scattered human remains.  She is also responsible for the controlled excavation and recovery of human remains.  Donna is skilled in three-dimensional clay facial reconstruction and also assists in reconstruction composite drawings of the face based upon analysis of the skull.  She is also the Forensic Anthropologist for the New Jersey State Police F.B.I.-partnered regional mitochondrial DNA laboratory, one of three in the country, which became operational on October 31, 2005.  Donna is a Fellow in the Physical Anthropology section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.  She also is a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) Region 2, and has worked in the identification process of victims of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York City, American Airlines Flight 587 on November 12, 2001 in Queens, New York as well as EgyptAir 990 plane crash on October 31, 1999 off Rhode Island.

Kevin Forder
Kevin A. Forder has been a United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) attorney for
almost 25 years. At the US Marshal Service (USMS), he focuses on writing Walsh Act training and policy material, contributes to the USMS Sex Offenders Investigations Branch (SOIB) website, serves as a liaison to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to the USDO], trains USMS personnel, and counsels Deputy US Marshals about enforcement of the Walsh Act; he also serves as an ethics counsel to the USMS, and as counsel to protective operations and protective intelligence investigations. Prior to joining the USMS, Forder served as an Attorney Advisor in the USDOJ's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, where he provided counsel to the U.S. intelligence community in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism matters and practiced before the FISA court. During his time there he also served as Associate Investigative Counsel to the Commission for the Review of FBI Security Programs (the Webster Commission), which conducted a comprehensive review of FBI internal security programs in the wake of former Special Agent Robert Hanssen's espionage. Prior to that, Forder served in a variety of USDO] positions, including Senior Litigation Counsel in the Criminal Division's Capital Case Unit, as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division's Criminal Section, and as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C. He is a former adjunct professor at George Washington University School of Law.

James Fottrell
James M. Fottrell is the Assistant to the Chief for Computer Forensics and Investigations for the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.  In this role, Mr. Fottrell oversees the staff of Computer Forensics Specialist within the section’s High Technology Investigative Unit (HTIU).  Among his duties, Mr. Fottrell conducts forensic analysis of seized computer systems and media, provides investigative and analytical support to prosecutors and law enforcement agents in child exploitation cases, and develops strategies for gathering electronic evidence.

David Fyler
David Fyler is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist. Mr. Fyler is co-founder of the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center and serves as the Program Director of the Mobile Child Advocacy Unit. He provides mental health services to families, specializing in Extended Forensic Evaluations and Trauma-Focused Therapy for child victims of sexual abuse and their families. Mr. Fyler is also a faculty member of Finding Words of Kansas, Inc.

Alexandra Gelber
Alexandra Gelber joined the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in 2004.  In her role as a Trial Attorney, Ms. Gelber works with U.S. Attorney’s Offices around the country on the investigation and prosecution of federal child exploitation crimes, including cases involving child pornography, sex trafficking of minors, sex tourism, and enticement and coercion of minors.  As an Assistant Deputy Chief, Ms. Gelber is responsible for developing CEOS’ legislation and policy agenda.  In this role, she drafts legislation, analyzes pending legislative proposals, and liaisons with other domestic and international offices, law enforcement agencies, and non-governmental organizations on child exploitation issues.  Prior to joining the Department, Ms. Gelber was an associate at the Washington D.C. office of Sidley Austin LLP.  She clerked for the Honorable Roger B. Andewelt on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.  Ms. Gelber has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University, and a law degree from Columbia University School of Law.

Mike Geraghty
Mike is the Executive Director of the Technology Services Division for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.  In this capacity he is responsible for overseeing the Center’s enterprise information technology systems and services.  Mike has previous corporate and law enforcement experience, which includes a position as the vice president of High Technology Investigations at Prudential Financial.  At Prudential, he was responsible for carrying out and supervising all computer related investigations for Prudential.  He is a former New Jersey State Trooper and is responsible for the formation and development of the NJSP’s High Technology Crimes Investigations Unit, which has garnered international accolades for its expertise in computer crime investigations. He has provided expert testimony before Congress, and throughout federal, state and international courts in the areas of computer crime investigations and computer forensics.  In a partnership with Interpol’s General Secretariat and the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Mike has provided training to over 1000 law enforcement officers from 125 countries in the technical aspects of Internet investigations.  Mike has provided technical and investigative assistance to numerous law enforcement agencies throughout the world including the FBI, United States Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service, Naval Intelligence, New Scotland Yard, Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Service and local police departments across the country in a wide array of criminal investigations where computers were involved.  He has lectured extensively throughout the country on the topic of computer crime investigations.   Mike is a past president of the Northeast Chapter of the High Technology Crimes Investigations Association. In addition, he has been involved in leadership roles in organizations such as the National Strategic Policy Council on Cyber and Electronic Crime, the International Computer Security Association, among others.

Angelo Giardino
Angelo P. Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children’s Health Plan, a clinical
professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, the Associate Chief for Academic General Pediatrics, Research, Texas Children's Hospital, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, an Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, an attending physician on the Texas Children’s Hospital Child Protection Team and a member of the forensic pediatrics service at the Children’s Assessment Center in Houston., Texas. He graduated summa cum laude from Temple University, earned his MD and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and his MPH from the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the Academic Pediatrics Association and Texas Pediatric Society where he serves on both the Child Abuse and Neglect Committee and the Children with Disabilities Committee. He is co-chair of the Children with Disabilities Committee. Dr. Giardino holds specialty certification from the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics and Child Abuse. His academic accomplishments include publishing several textbooks on child abuse and neglect, presenting on a variety of pediatric topics at national and regional conferences, serving on several national boards including the Board of Directors for Prevent Child Abuse America, the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Safe Families, the Board of Directors for the Sunshine Foundation, and the Advisory Board for Justice for Children. He also is a member of the Board of Directors for Children @ Risk Houston, a nonprofit organization that drives change for children through research, education and influencing public policy. Most recently Dr. Giardino was named the principal investigator for an Avon Foundation supported project designed to train pediatric health care professionals about how to screen for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in the pediatric healthcare setting. This project builds off a previous Children’s Trust Fund supported project piloted in Philadelphia that trained pediatric residents to incorporate IPV screening into their continuity clinic.

Rebecca Girardet
Dr. Girardet is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Director of the UT-Houston Child Abuse Resource and Education Center, and Medical Director for the statewide Forensic Assessment Center Network (FACN).  She is locally and nationally recognized for her publications in child abuse and pediatric education, including original research on sexually transmitted infections and comprehensive medical care for abused children.  Her work has received grant support from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as local charities. She currently serves as co-chair of the Texas Pediatric Society Child Abuse and Neglect Committee, and as a member of the UT-Houston Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects. As Medical Director for the FACN, she oversees a coordinated system of expert pediatricians who provide case consultations and education for CPS investigative workers throughout Texas.

Sharon Girling
Sharon recently retired following 30 years service from the police. She joined the police aged 18 years of age and spent the first five years as a uniformed officer engaged in local policing duties. She then transferred to detective duties specializing in drug crimes with postings to drug squads and national policing agencies.   In 1999 Sharon was appointed as the case officer to the internationally renowned computer based pedophile investigation known as Operation Cathedral. This case saw the co-coordinated arrest and subsequent convictions of more than 130 suspects and the seizure of more than 750,000 images of children. Sharon has spent the final eleven years policing child abuse on the Internet and leading similar investigations both nationally and internationally. She was the co-coordinating officer for the United Kingdom’s response to Operation Avalanche. This one case resulted in the conviction of more than 2,500 suspects in the United Kingdom and the recovery of more than 150 children from an abusive environment.  Sharon’s other tasks have included initiating changes in legislation within the United Kingdom and abroad. She initiated the development of software to assist in the identification of child abuse victims, which has been adopted by Interpol and other countries.  Sharon has provided written testimony in more than 300 cases in the United States and given live testimony on many occasions.  In 2006 Sharon was appointed as an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen for her services to policing child abuse.

Arne Graff
Dr. Graff is a graduate of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine with specialty training in Family Medicine.  He has also completed subspecialty training in Pediatric Child Abuse at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.  Arne is currently the medical director for the Child and Adolescent Maltreatment Services (CAMS) at MeritCare Health Systems and for the Red River Children’s Advocacy Center and the North Dakota CAC state chapter.  He is also an associate professor of Pediatrics for the UND School of Medicine and he is a current board member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC).

Renee Green
Renee is a Special Agent assigned to investigate Innocent Images cases in the San Diego Division of the FBI.  She was previously assigned to the Las Vegas Division, where she participated in the Innocence Lost task force.  Prior to joining the Bureau, Renee was an Assistant State's Attorney.

Steven Grocki
Steven Grocki is currently the Assistant Deputy Chief for Litigation at the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in Washington, DC.  CEOS leads the Department of Justice in its endeavor to continuously improve the enforcement of federal child exploitation laws and prevent the exploitation of children and families.  In his capacity as Assistant Deputy Chief for Litigation, Mr. Grocki supervises CEOS’ 15 trial attorneys.  CEOS’ team of attorneys actively prosecute all federal crimes relating to the exploitation of children, provide advice and training to federal prosecutors, law enforcement personnel, and Department of Justice officials, develop prosecution policies, legislation, government practices and agency regulations, and participate in national and international meetings on training and policy development.  Mr. Grocki has worked for CEOS since July 2004 and since that time he has prosecuted child exploitation cases involving child pornography, online child enticement and traveler cases, child prostitution, and international sex tourism.   Mr. Grocki began his legal career as a military prosecutor (Judge Advocate General (JAG)) in the United States Air Force in 1997.   Mr. Grocki served as an Air Force JAG for a total of seven years reaching the rank of major.  During that time, he served as a prosecutor on over one hundred courts-martial throughout the United States and abroad.  During 13 months of that time, Mr. Grocki also served as a defense counsel.  Despite leaving active duty in June 2004, Mr. Grocki continues to serve as a reserve officer and is assigned to the Aviation and Admiralty Law Branch of the Civil Tort Division at the Air Force Legal Operations Agency in Rosslyn, Virginia.  

Tommy Hansen
Lieutenant Tommy Hansen has been employed by the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office since 1973. In 1999 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and was assigned as the Assistant Commander of the Criminal Investigation Division. This position oversees the major crimes investigators, environmental crimes, auto crimes task force, narcotics, domestic terrorism, special crimes unit, gang intelligence, crimes against children and crime analyst.  In 2001 he was given the task of reorganizing the community service programs and created the Galveston County Citizen Sheriff’s Academy. Since then the academy has graduated over 400 citizens.  In 2009 he was given the duty of developing the newly created Special Crimes Unit. Lt. Hansen is also a member of Beat The Heat and is currently the Vice President. Beat The Heat is an international law enforcement youth education program. His Beat The Heat program, Tropical Impression Racing Team conducts an average of 35 youth outreach programs annually.  He is also involved with the Ronald Mc Donald House of Galveston and the Children’s Advocacy Center in Galveston.

Nancy Harper
Nancy Sanders Harper is the Medical Director for the CARE (Child Abuse Resource & Evaluation) Team at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, TX.  She graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1995, and completed her pediatric residency in 1998 at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia.  After graduation, Dr. Harper served as a staff pediatrician and Child Abuse Consultant for Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, and then moved overseas to US Naval Hospital Okinawa in Japan where she continued as a Child Abuse Consultant.  In 2004, Dr. Harper resigned from the US Navy and entered into fellowship training in Forensic Pediatrics at Brown University in RI, graduating in January 2007.  Dr. Harper has served on the state legislative committee tasked with the development of guidelines for designating regional centers of excellence for child abuse in Texas.    Dr. Harper is a consultant on the medical advisory committee for Superior Health Plan for foster care.  She is the current Co-Chair for the Texas Pediatric Society Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect.  Dr. Harper was recently appointed by Governor Perry to the statewide Blue Ribbon Task Force charged with addressing child abuse prevention and the promotion of child well being for the state of Texas.

Liss Haviv
Liss Haviv is the Executive Director of Take Root, a landmark non-profit organization started by and for former abducted children to respond to child abduction from the unique perspective of the abducted child by raising issue awareness, gathering and sharing knowledge and facilitating healing.  Take Root administers a national peer support program for former abducted children while using program findings to educate multidisciplinary response professionals, victims’ families, and the public on the victimology of child abduction and the best approaches to prevention, intervention, and treatment in cases of family abduction.  Take Root's vision is to expand our nation’s response to missing children “beyond recovering missing children, to helping missing children recover.” Liss was awarded a Fulbright in social anthropology after graduating from UC Berkeley as a University Medal Semi-finalist and departmental Valedictorian, receiving a BA with Highest Honors in Interdisciplinary Studies. Considered a leading expert in the victimology of child abduction, her published work has appeared in Insight Magazine and the Wisconsin Law Journal and she has provided interviews and commentary for media outlets including Court-TV’s Courtside, the Today Show, CNN, the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, People Magazine, and many top 100 newspapers.  Liss provides training workshops on family abduction for agencies such as the US Department of State, The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and the National Judicial College, where she has served as a member of the guest faculty.  Her colleagues in the missing-child service industry have called her contributions to the field “revolutionary” and “essential.” Liss was abducted by her mother when she was nine and hidden from her family and the justice system for two years.

Mark Herbst
Mark Herbst has been a police officer for 15 years.  He is currently a patrol officer at the New Berlin Police Department in New Berlin, Wisconsin.  Mark is also the digital forensics examiner for the department.  He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from Carroll University, Waukesha, WI and an Associate degree in Police Science from Waukesha County Technical College, Pewaukee, WI.

Mike Hess
Mike joined the Corpus Christi Police Department in 1981. In 1994 he became a detective in the CCPD Criminal Investigations Division.  In 1995 was transferred to the Robbery/Homicide Division in the sex crimes unit.  While assigned the sex crimes unit more and more child cases were assigned to him. In 1999 the Family Violence Unit was created and Mike transferred into this unit. By 2005 he was assigned to a new unit created in the Family Violence Unit that investigated only child abuse cases. In 2009 Mike transferred back to the Uniform Division.

Cynthia Hetherington

Graham Hill
Graham Hill is currently the head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. CEOP is affiliated to the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) and is a UK national law enforcement agency, which specializes in crimes against children. He is responsible for the development of Behavioral Analysis and its use by CEOP and other law enforcement agencies to understand and combat child sexual abuse.  He is a senior career detective with 24 years service as a police officer the majority within the criminal investigation department. He is an accredited Senior Investigating Officer with a background in specialist and major crime investigation. Graham has in the past been commended for his detective ability and leadership during investigations by various Chief Constables. His work has also been recognized by the award of several judge’s commendations.  Graham has led major crime and specialist crime teams on a number of high profile UK investigations. In 2002 in a groundbreaking investigation he led the team that secured the world’s first conviction using familial DNA techniques.  Since 2001 Graham has provided law enforcement training on the issues of understanding, interviewing, preparing strategies for interviewing child sex offenders and investigating serious sexual crimes against children. In addition to providing training in the UK he has undertaken training internationally for European law enforcement agencies, Interpol, Europol and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in South East Asian.

Michael Hill
Michael Hill has been a Massachusetts State Police Officer since 1993. He has worked in the Berkshire Detective Unit since 1995, a state police detective unit assigned to the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office. During this time he has investigated homicides, unattended deaths, rapes, child abuse, child sexual assaults, and other major crimes within Berkshire County. Michael has had extensive training and experience with the seizure and forensic examination of computers and conducts all forensic examinations within Berkshire County. Michael has computer forensic certifications as an Encase Certified Examiner (EnCE), Seized Computer Evidence Recovery Specialist (SCERS), and a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE). Michael has been a member of the Massachusetts Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force since 2000. He has conducted both reactive and proactive investigations involving the exploitation of children on the Internet. He has both instructed and assisted state and local law enforcement officers within Berkshire County and throughout Massachusetts with the investigation of Internet related crimes.  Additionally, Michael has presented public awareness and prevention presentations regarding Internet safety to children, parents, teachers, and other professional members of the community throughout Massachusetts.  Michael has been a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) New England since 1997. He is also a member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Associates. Michael has an Associate Degree from Springfield Technical Community College in Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Westfield State College. He is also a former United States Marine (1987-1991).

Robert Hoever
Robert Hoever is currently employed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as the Associate Director of Special Projects within the Missing Children Division.  He manages NCMEC’s role in the AMBER Alert Program, and serves as a liaison to law enforcement and other AMBER partners; liaison to the fifty-three Missing-Child Clearinghouses; and liaison to Tribal Law Enforcement, as well as any other special projects assigned by the Executive Director.  He retired after 26 years with the NJ State Police as the Assistant Bureau Chief of the Child Protection and Cyber-Crimes Bureau. 

Jim Holler
Chief Jim Holler has served as Chief of Police for the past 16 years of the Liberty Township Police Department in Adams County, Pennsylvania and on December 1, 2007, he retired as the Chief of Police to continue consulting in matters of crimes against children and child protective services safety.  Chief Holler is a nationally known speaker specializing in child abuse investigations and is also a consultant for the Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WI, the Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program, University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work, and the National Children’s Advocacy Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Francis Hubert
Colonel Hubert is a specialist of Criminal Investigation in the French national Gendarmerie.  Since 2008, he has been the leader of a special unit responsible for criminal investigations for France.  Among his many responsibilities is combating the proliferation of child pornography/child sexual exploitation facilitated by the Internet.   As such, he is member of the FBI’s Innocent Images International Task Force (IIITF).  He has been a member of the Gendarmerie for more than 25 dutiful years. In 1991 he was the leader of a special public safety unit that unit responded to riots in France.  In 1994 he was in charge of security in the French department of Oise.  Colonel Hubert was appointed the commander of the federal unit of Criminal Investigation in Bordeaux (southwest of France) in 2000. He became the Federal Headquarters Director of Public Safety in the Department of the Pyrénées-Orientales (southeast of France) in 2004.  In 2008, he was appointed to the command of the only unit of French criminal investigation of the Gendarmerie with national jurisdiction, the STRJD (technical service of judicial researches and documentation).  Colonel Hubert is a graduate of the Collège Interarmées de Défense (restricted to commanding officers of superior qualifications). He has received numerous awards and commendations throughout his career including the highest French recognition of military distinction, the Legion of Honor.

Mike Ilse

Cory Jewell Jensen
Cory Jewell Jensen, M.S. is the Co-Director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention in Beaverton, Oregon.  Cory has worked with adult sex offenders and their families for over 27 years.   She has provided training and/or consultation to the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse, the United States Navy, the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children, and a number of local and national law enforcement, child advocacy and faith based organizations.  Cory served as the Executive Director for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) from 1992 to 1994, was President of the Oregon Chapter of ATSA from 2005 to 2006, and currently chairs the Offender Management Committee attached to the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force.  She has received Oregon’s "Commercial Crime Prevention Award”, the "Champions for Children Award", the OATSA "Significant Achievement Award", the Randy Lee Nunnenkamp "Award of Excellence", and the Jan Hindman Memorial Award.  She has also published a number of articles on the evaluation and treatment of sex offenders, testified as an expert witness in local and federal courts and been a featured guest on radio talk shows and the Oprah Winfrey Show. 

Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson is a native of San Antonio, Texas.  He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.  Mike joined the Plano Police Department in September 1982.   After being assigned to the Patrol division for four years, Johnson transferred to the Criminal Investigations division and began investigating child abuse in 1986.  He is currently assigned to the Juvenile division of the Plano Police Department.  Detective Johnson is considered an ambassador for child advocacy.  He is a founding member of the Collin County Children’s Advocacy Center, and in 1996 he was named the Center’s “Child Advocate of the Year”.  Mike was appointed to the National Board of Directors for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) in 1998, and was President of the APSAC Texas State Chapter.  In addition to serving on numerous national boards and task forces, he currently serves as a faculty member for the National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC).  Johnson has also been instrumental in helping shape Texas laws relating to child abuse.  He has served on the Texas State Attorney General’s Sexual Offender Protocol Task Force and Senator Florence Shapiro’s Blue Ribbon committee to formulate the now instated “Ashley Laws.”  A well-known national speaker, he is now taking his message to the international arena, having been a featured speaker at ISPCAN’s (International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect) International Congress in Durban, South Africa, the International Association of Chiefs of Police Child Protection Summit, and the Norwegian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Oslo, Norway.

Michael Johnson
Special Agent Johnson is assigned to the ICE, Office of the Resident Agent in Charge, Indianapolis, IN.  He is a computer forensics agent and is tasked with coordinating/investigating the child exploitation cases within his office’s area of responsibility.  SA Johnson began his career in 1994 with the Indianapolis, IN Police Department where he served approximately nine years in an investigative capacity.

Rita Johnson
Rita Johnson is a forensic interviewer and Child Advocacy Specialist – combining her experience as an interviewer and administrator, with the ever-changing world of technology.  Previous to her current role, she served eight years as the Executive Director and forensic interviewer of Chaucie’s Place, a child advocacy center in Indiana.  As a trainer and speaker, she continues to champion the cause of child advocacy by addressing multi-disciplinary teams, agencies, schools and state and national conferences on child-related topics.  She recently published the article, “A Forensic Interviewer’s Perspective on Digital Recording of Children”.  Rita was presented with the US Attorney Generals award for “Outstanding Service to Victims of Crime”, serves on the faculty for ChildFirst Indiana and is the recipient of the “Champion for Children” award, from Cornerhouse Interagency Child Abuse Evaluation and Training Center in Minnesota.

Stephen Jones

Richard Kaplan
Richard Kaplan is a Computer Forensic Specialist in the High Technology Investigative Unit (HTIU) located within the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.  Mr. Kaplan conducts forensic analysis of seized computer systems and media, provides investigative and analytical support to prosecutors and law enforcement agents in child exploitation cases, and develops strategies for gathering electronic evidence.

Tom Keith
Tom Keith is Project Safe Childhood National Coordinator. He came to the Executive Office for United States Attorneys in March, 2010, from the Central District of Illinois where he was the Branch Chief of the Peoria Division. He was also the Project Safe Childhood Coordinator and Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator for the Central District of Illinois. Tom has been prosecuting child exploitation cases since 1998, and in 2001, he organized the Central Illinois Cybercrime Unit, a federal, state and local law enforcement cybercrime-working group. He has trained agents and prosecutors on various topics, including computer searches and the Fourth Amendment. Prior to coming the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 1994, Tom was a judicial law clerk for Chief District Judge Michael M. Mihm. He graduated magna cum laude from Valparaiso University School of Law where he was the Executive Managing Editor of the Law Review, and he is Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois where he graduated with degrees in English Literature and Expository Rhetoric.

Richard Kelly
Senior Inspector (SI) Kelly has been with the U.S. Marshals Service for the past twelve years. He serves as a Senior Inspector at the National Sex Offender Targeting Center, located in Arlington, Virginia as a member of the Operations Unit.  Prior to this assignment, he served as a Deputy U.S. Marshal stationed in Washington, DC for ten years, the last six of which were spent on the District’s warrant squad and as a member of the Capitol Area Regional Fugitive Task Force.  Before joining the Marshals Service, SI Kelly was an Investigator with the Youth Violence Strike Force of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sueann Kenney-Noziska
Sueann Kenney-Noziska, MSW, LISW, LCSW, RPT-S, is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor specializing in using play therapy in clinical practice with abused and traumatized children, adolescents, and families. She is an accomplished author, instructor of play therapy, guest lecturer, and internationally recognized speaker who has trained thousands of professionals. Sueann is founder and President of Play Therapy Corner, Inc. and actively serves in leadership roles in the play therapy community. She is author of “Techniques-Techniques-Techniques: Play-Based Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families,” a manual which highlights the original play-based techniques and interventions she has created to advance the field of play therapy. Sueann is known as a dynamic, engaging speaker with a reputation for providing practical and clinically useful play therapy interventions. Her seminars are consistently rated as “outstanding” and highlight her practical, first-hand experience using play therapy in clinical practice, as well as her creativity, insight, and expertise.

Julie Kenniston
Julie Kenniston is the Director of Training and Education at Butler County Children Services in Hamilton, Ohio, and the Interim Executive Director of The Center for Family Solutions, Butler County’s developing child advocacy center.  She is also an independent contractor and trainer presenting nationally and internationally on interviewing, investigation, and the prosecution of child abuse cases. She is a trainer for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.  Ms. Kenniston organized and coordinated the Forensic Training Institute for The Childhood Trust in Cincinnati, Ohio starting in August 1997 and has trained in the program since its inception. She co-authored and trains ONCAC’s Beyond the Silence forensic interviewer course.  She is also a faculty member for Finding Words Ohio.  Ms. Kenniston is a board member for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), co-chairing the forensic interviewer certification task force.  She also sits on the board of the Ohio APSAC chapter.  Ms. Kenniston was a Sexual Abuse Investigator for Hamilton County Department of Human Services where she conducted over 3,000 forensic interviews of alleged child victims of sexual abuse. 

Brian Killacky
Brian is a Supervisor within the Investigations Bureau of the Cook County States Attorney Office (CCSAO).   He is responsible for supervising the following units: the Capital Murder, DNA, Post Conviction/Wrongful Conviction, Grand Jury and Felony Review.  Brian has worked eight years for the CCSAO and 27 years for the Chicago Police Department.  He has been a consultant for Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for 22 years. Brian has extensive investigative experience in investigations of cold cases, homicides, violent crimes and crimes against children.  Brian was one of two speakers that presented at the very first Crimes against Children Conference.

Al Killen-Harvey
Al Killen-Harvey is a Clinical Improvement Coordinator at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at San Diego’s Rady Children’s Hospital.  He supervises a staff that works with children and families who have been physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused.  He is a past recipient of the San Diego County Child Abuse Coordinating Council’s “Unsung Hero” Award for his work with children who have been abused and/or neglected. He has served on the board of CAPSAC (California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children) and is a consultant and trainer for the Department   of Social Services in San Diego and Los Angeles Counties. He was invited by the government of Ecuador to assist in the development of their first nationwide child abuse legislation and, in 2005, he visited American Samoa where he was asked by the Governor to assist in the development of the first Samoan Child Abuse Prevention Conference. He recently returned from Bogotá, Colombia where he gave the first ever presentation on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues to a Pan American child abuse conference.

James Kilpatrick
Senior Special Agent James Kilpatrick, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been special agent since 2001 and a certified computer forensic agent since 2006.  SSA Kilpatrick has investigated or assisted in over 150 child exploitation investigations including initiating and dismantling an international child exploitation group exploiting a social networking site for the purpose of collecting and trading images and movies of child pornography. This investigation is the first child exploitation enterprise investigation involving a social networking site.

Damon King
Damon King is a Deputy Chief in the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the United States Department of Justice.  Mr. King supervises more than a dozen prosecutors and manages the High Technology Investigative Unit (HTIU), a special unit within CEOS.  Before joining CEOS as a prosecutor in 2001, Mr. King served for more than six years as a prosecutor in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Christopher Kolcharno
Detective Chris Kolcharno has been a sworn police officer since 1988 with the Blakely Police Department and is currently a detective with the Lackawanna County District Attorney's Office, supervising the Special Victims Unit. He has been exclusively investigating crimes against children since June of 2001. Detective Kolcharno received a Bachelors of Science in Administration of Justice from the Pennsylvania State University in 1991.  He is a certified trainer for the Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officer’s Education and Training Commission.  Detective Kolcharno is a member of the Pennsylvania State Police Area II Computer Crime Task Force, the Pennsylvania ICAC Task Force, and the FBI Scranton Resident Agency –Scranton Multi-Agency Cyber Task Force.

Kristina Korobov
Kristina Korobov, J.D. is a Senior Attorney for the National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women, a division of the National District Attorney’s Association.  Prior to joining NCPVAW, Kristina served as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney with the Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney in Leesburg, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC.  She handled all Domestic Violence and Physical Child Abuse Cases and was responsible for Law Enforcement Training.  Kristina was a member of the Loudoun Domestic Abuse Response Team (DART) and she chaired the Child Protection Team Subcommittee of the DART.  Kristina came to Virginia from Indianapolis, where she was the Coordinator of the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership, an initiative funded by the United States Department of Justice.  Prior to that, Korobov served as Chief Counsel for Strand Analytical Laboratories, a private DNA Lab in Indianapolis.  From 1996 until 2005, Kristina worked in the Marion County (Indianapolis) Prosecutor’s Office.  She served as Chief of the Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit, Chief of the Domestic Violence Unit and as a Major Felony Prosecutor.  In addition to handling cases, Kristina was responsible for attorney supervision and training, policy development, community outreach and training for law enforcement officers.  Among other cases during her tenure, Korobov prosecuted Marion County’s first Repeat Sex Offender, a police officer who was manufacturing child pornography, and serial rapist Charles Hill.  In 2002, Kristina was named Prosecutor of the Year by the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault and received an Outstanding Lecturer Award from Communities Against Rape / Center of Hope for Youth.  Defense attorneys refer to Ms. Korobov as the “Queen of Pain” and the “Princess of Darkness.” She is a runner who has completed two marathons and has vowed never to do another.  In her spare time, she enjoys half-marathons and eating fattening foods that she will later have to work off by running half-marathons.  Her nieces are the most beautiful little girls ever.

Paul Krawczyk

Carrie Landau
Carrie is currently assigned to the FBI Chicago Division, South Resident Agency.  She is assigned to the Violent Crimes Squad and works predominately on Innocence Lost cases.  Carrie graduated with her Bachelors of Science and Masters Degrees in Criminal Justice from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.  Prior to joining the FBI, Carrie worked for the Seventh Judicial District Department of Corrections, Davenport, Iowa.  Carrie was assigned to the FBI Cleveland Division for her first three years of assignment.

Ron Laney
Ronald C. Laney has been Associate Administrator of the Child Protection Division since February 2000.  As the Associate Administrator, he administers projects, programs, and initiatives related to crimes against children and children exposed to violence.  This includes providing leadership and funding in the areas of prevention, intervention, treatment, and enforcement.  From 1993 to 2000, he served as the Director of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Program.  From 1981 through April 1993 as OJJDP’s Law Enforcement Program Manager, he developed a series of National Law Enforcement Training programs that are still offered throughout the country today.  More than 50,000 prosecutors, law enforcement, and child protective and medical officials have participated in these training programs since 1982.  Prior to coming to OJJDP, Mr. Laney was a Program Manager in the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration for five years.  Mr. Laney served as a probation officer in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1974.  He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1964 to 1970 before being wounded during his second tour in Vietnam.   Mr. Laney has received numerous awards from local and state law enforcement organizations for his work in juvenile law enforcement.  He has a Masters degree in Criminal Justice from the University of South Florida and a Bachelors degree in Criminology from the University of Tampa, FL.

Jan Langbein
Jan Langbein currently serves as Executive Director of Genesis Women’s Shelter in Dallas.   She is responsible for overseeing the agency’s internal and external operations as well as funding and community education.  She has conducted training, keynote and workshop programs for numerous local and national colleges, social and civic organizations, and corporations.  For over 20 years, Ms. Langbein has been an activist in efforts to end violence against women.   In 2008, Ms. Langbein served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Director of the United States Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW).  As Senior Policy Advisor, Ms. Langbein guided and evaluated OVW’s grant program process and implemented standards and protocols for internal and external operations.

Ken Lanning
Mr. Lanning is a consultant in the area of crimes against children.  He was a Special Agent with the FBI for more than 30 years and was assigned to the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy for 20 of those years.  He is a current member of the Advisory Board of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA).  Mr. Lanning is the 1996 recipient of the Outstanding Professional Award from APSAC and the 2009 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Service from the National Children's Advocacy Center.  He has lectured before thousands of criminal justice professionals.

Kari Lannon
Kari Lannon, M.A., is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Fielding Graduate University. She currently conducts psychological evaluations and individual, group, and family therapies with victims of child abuse at the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center. Kari also works as a practicum student at Lehman and Associates where she assists in psychological assessments of public safety and health care professionals. Her past experiences include teaching preschool through middle school, presenting at educational conferences, and serving as a guest lecturer at the university level. 

Kevin Laws
Senior Special Agent Kevin J. Laws began his career in federal law enforcement with the United States Customs Service in 1989, working as a Marine Enforcement Officer in Fort Pierce, Florida conducting narcotics interdiction, then in 1995 as a special agent in Yuma, Arizona.  Kevin began assisting in child exploitation investigations in 1996, and became a computer forensic agent in 1999.  When Kevin transferred to Anchorage, Alaska in 2001, he began working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a full time child exploitation investigator and computer forensic agent.  Kevin assisted in creating the Alaska ICAC task force and continues to be a member of the task force. He began working on-line undercover investigations in 2004 (Yahoo) and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) investigations in 2006 and has logged over 1000 hours of chat time in IRC alone.  He has authored and served more than 70 search warrants pertaining to child exploitation and conducted over 330 computer forensic examinations.  He has taught on-line undercover investigations to numerous ICE agents as well as state and local investigators.  He has extensive court experience and has testified as an expert witness as well as a teaching witness concerning chat rooms and computers forensics as it applies to child exploitation investigations. In 2004 he received the U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for outstanding contributions in law enforcement for his investigation of U.S. Vs. Aaron DeGlanville.

Michael Lebovich
Michael Lebovich joined MySpace in 2007 and currently helps develop and execute safety, security, and privacy policies and programs for MySpace.  Prior to joining MySpace, Michael served as a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles where he supervised investigations and prosecuted cases involving Internet crimes against children, theft of trade secrets, hacking, piracy, and identity theft.

Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is the Project Specialist for the Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP), at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.  She has worked within the Exploited Children Division for seven years.  In 2002 Ms. Lee assisted in the creation and development of the Child Victim Identification Program.  Until 2007, she served as the program manager for the unit.  At that time, Ms. Lee relocated to Oregon where she now works to help advance the tools used daily within CVIP to assist law enforcement and prosecutors with rescuing children and securing convictions in child pornography crimes.

William Leen
Sergeant Leen is a 19 year veteran of the Cook County Sheriff's Department where he has served in the Patrol Division, Gang Crimes / Narcotics Unit, Special Operations Unit, Jail Criminal Investigations Unit, and on Federal Task Forces (Secret Service and U.S. Customs).  Currently he is assigned to the Cook County Sheriff's Police Vice Unit and is a Hostage Negotiator with the Hostage Barricade Team.  The Cook County Sheriff's Police Vice Unit conducts investigations relating to human trafficking, sex offenses (including prostitution related offenses), illegal gambling and liquor license violations.  Members of the Cook County Sheriff's Police Vice Unit were responsible for the first arrest and prosecution for Human Trafficking/ Involuntary Servitude of a Minor in Illinois. 

Alexandra Levi
Ale Levi is currently employed with ICE as a Forensic Interview Specialist.  Ms. Levi’s responsibilities include conducting forensic interviews in both English and Spanish (both domestically and internationally), consultation and training for ICE Agents, and other federal, state and local law enforcement, and other organizations.  Ms. Levi is a state Licensed Clinical Social Worker and received her Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan and her Masters in Forensic Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.  Prior to ICE, Ms. Levi was the Manager of the Forensic Interviewing Program at the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center, where she was responsible for the collaboration of the multidisciplinary team, conducting and supervising forensic interviews, training and overseeing interpreting services.  Ms. Levi has been working in the field of child abuse for 11 years, eight of which have been as a forensic interviewer.  Her prior assignments were as a psychotherapist and as a hospital social worker.

Stephanie Lister
For the past 23 years, Stephanie Lister has been an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for the Eastern District of Washington.  AUSA Lister serves as Senior Litigation Counsel, Project Safe Childhood and Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Coordinator for the E.D. of WA.  During the course of her career, she has prosecuted a significant number of cases involving the sexual exploitation of children, including cases involving the victimization of children and production of child pornography.  She was one of the lead prosecutors in the case of U.S. v. Freeman, in which the defendant photographed his sexual abuse of his daughter, distributed those photos via the Internet (which is known as the "Vicky" series) and then fled to China to avoid prosecution.  Freeman was extradited and is presently serving a 50-year sentence.  As a result of her litigation experience, AUSA Lister frequently trains agents and prosecutors on a variety of topics and organizes training and presents community internet safety presentations.  She has received numerous awards and commendations for her work, including the United States Department of Justice Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an AUSA, and the 2010 Law Enforcement Program of the Year Award, for Child Abuse Prevention, from the Washington State Crime Prevention Association.

Bill Livermore
Bill Livermore is the Executive Director of the Somaly Mam Foundation and member of the New York City Human Trafficking Task Force. Since assuming his leadership role with the foundation in 2009, he has been responsible for implementing new outcomes-based strategies across the organization and establishing multiple corporate, public, and NGO partnerships in the areas of public awareness, advocacy and survivor services. He has been involved with the Somaly Mam Foundation since its beginning and has contributed significantly to the organization’s fundraising, program development, and awareness efforts. As a member of the New York City Human Trafficking Task Force, Livermore has provided strategic guidance to the Mayor’s Office in establishing its human trafficking public awareness campaign and strengthening its anti-trafficking efforts and survivor services. Prior to joining the foundation, Livermore served as the Director of Thought Leadership Programs at LexisNexis, where he was responsible for building the company’s Rule of Law initiative and managing government, legal, and NGO relationships. He also served as Lead Advance for the Clinton White House and held management positions at Cornell, Corning, Unisys, and LexisNexis. Livermore is a Cornell University graduate and lives with his family in New York City.

Christopher Livingston
A Texas Superlawyers Rising Star, Christopher is a partner in Lyon, Gorsky, Haring & Gilbert, L.L.P., a firm that concentrates in representing police officers and public employees. Chris has represented more than 80 officers in critical incidents and has presented papers on Law Enforcement Personnel Issues to the Texas State Bar's Suing & Defending Governmental Entities Course, the Texas Municipal Police Association, and other groups. Chris is a third-generation Jayhawk and graduated from the University of Texas School of Law. Before joining Lyon Gorsky, Chris served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge William M. Acker, Jr. of the Northern District of Alabama and as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas. Locally, Chris is an active member of the 5th and 31st Degree Teams of the Dallas Scottish Rite.

Tim Lott
Mr. Lott is a High-Tech Crime Training Specialist in the High-Tech Crime Training Services department of SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, where he coordinates and provides training on high-tech crime investigations and forensics to local, state, and federal justice and public safety agencies.  A former deputy probation officer with the Sacramento County (California) Probation Department, Mr. Lott has advanced training in computer forensics investigations and data recovery. He was assigned to the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force, where he conducted probation compliance checks on offenders who have been convicted and placed on probation for offenses involving the possession of child pornography, stalking through the use of social networking sites or cellular devices, and identity theft. In addition to completing compliance checks, he lead investigations of peer-to-peer networks used to trade child pornography.

Robert Lowery
Robert G. Lowery, Jr. is currently employed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as the Executive Director of the Missing Children Division. He is responsible for all operational aspects of the Missing Children’s Division, including Case Management, Case Management Support, Forensic Services, Special Programs and Outreach.  He formerly was a Major/Assistant Chief of Police with the Florissant, MO Police, and the commander of the Greater St. Louis Major Case Squad.

Peter Magnetto
Special Agent Pete Magnetto is assigned to the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  He has worked in a variety of investigative programs to include the FBI’s Innocent Images National Initiative (child pornography investigations) and the FBI’s Crimes Against Children Program (child prostitution / domestic sex trafficking of children and international parental kidnapping investigations).  SA Magnetto has been assigned to the FBI’s New York Division for the last four years and is currently assigned to FBI New York’s Hudson Valley Resident Agency in upstate New York.

Somaly Mam
Somaly Mam, a survivor of human trafficking, went on to found the largest shelters in Southeast Asia and has rescued over 6,000 girls in the past ten years. Recognizing the hidden nature and global reach of modern day slavery, Somaly could not stand silently by and watch as innocent women and children around the world suffered her same fate. In 2005 she published her acclaimed biography “The Road of Lost Innocence,” a gripping account of her life and work to rescue and heal slavery survivors. Somaly’s global awareness efforts have been instrumental in establishing a worldwide anti-trafficking movement that not only shines a light on the crime and root causes of human trafficking, but recognizes the critical need to provide survivors with comprehensive services that empower them to live successful and dignified lives. Universally recognized as a visionary for her courage, dignity, ingenuity, and resilience, Somaly was honored as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2009 and was featured as a CNN Hero. She is also the recipient of the first Roland Berger Human Dignity Award, the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC), Glamour Magazine's 2006 Woman of the Year Award, and has won accolades from the US Department of Homeland Security. Despite receiving numerous death threats and having the opportunity to distance herself from hardship and peril, Somaly continues to live and work among the women and children she rescues. She regularly puts herself at risk working side by side with law enforcement as she takes on organized crime and unscrupulous brothel owners to rescue victims across Southeast Asia. Asked why she continues to fight in the face of such fierce and frightening opposition, Somaly resolutely responds, "I don't want to go without leaving a trace."

Aaron Mango
Aaron Mango has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of New York since 2007.  He is assigned to the White Collar/General Crimes division, and handles a significant number of child pornography and child exploitation cases.  Aaron is a graduate of the Boston University School of Law, and previously served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

Kate Manning
Ms. Manning is an Attorney Advisor for the Victim Witness Staff at the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.  Since joining the Victim Witness Staff in 2004, Ms. Manning has worked on implementation of the Crime Victims' Rights Act within the Department of Justice and on drafting the 2005 Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance.  Ms. Manning has also worked as a counselor and advocate for battered women, in the Family Violence and Sex Crimes Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office and at the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop in San Francisco.

Jennifer Mardosz
Jennifer joined MySpace in 2007 as Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs. Since
then, she has headed up the company's global Law Enforcement program and played a key role in advising the company on safety, security and privacy issues. She also works closely with both the product and customer care teams to help ensure a positive user experience.  Prior to MySpace Jennifer served as Corporate Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for Qwest Communications where she played a leading role in their online safety program.  She also headed up the company's internal investigations and ethics and compliance teams. During her time at Qwest, she led her group's effort to re-write the company's code of conduct. Prior to Qwest, Jennifer was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Colorado where she prosecuted all types of federal crimes including Internet crimes, bank robberies, drug trafficking and immigration offenses. Her main area of expertise was prosecutions focused on Internet crimes against children.  Jennifer lives near Los Angles with her husband and four children.

Kathleen McAuliff  
Kathleen McAuliff is a volunteer playroom and research assistant for the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center (DCAC). She graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in Psychology in 2007.  Kathleen currently works for an educational company and will be attending DePaul University this fall to pursue a Ph.D. in Community Psychology.

Ada McCloud
Ada McCloud is a Program Training Specialist for Children’s Advocacy Center of Texas in Austin, Texas (CACTX), where she provides training and technical assistance to local CACs. Prior to joining CACTX, Ada served as the Program Director and Forensic Interviewer for the Children’s Advocacy Center of East Texas (CACET) in Longview, Texas.  She began her career in the child abuse field in early 2000 as a Child Protective Services Specialist in Longview. Ada earned her Bachelor of Science, in Youth and Family Ministry in 1994 and her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy in 1997 both from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. Ada has conducted more than 700 forensic interviews of children, provided court testimony and facilitated multidisciplinary team case review staffings at the CACET. In addition, she was actively involved in providing Child Abuse Awareness Programs to civic organizations throughout East Texas.  Currently, Ada oversees the Forensic Interview training curriculum offered by CACTX as well as providing forensic interview training to local member centers.  In addition, she has presented at both state and national conferences on forensic interviewing, peer review for forensic interviewers, supervision of forensic interviewers and other multidisciplinary team issues.

Stacy McDonald
Doctor McDonald has worked at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences (SWIFS) for seven years.  In addition to her supervisory duties, she is a qualified analyst in both serological and DNA analysis of evidence items.  She has testified as an expert witness in criminal trials in both the state and federal court systems.

J. Steven McElyea
Steven is an Investigator with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. He has been investigating cases involving child exploitation, the physical and sexual abuse of children for ten years. In 2005, Investigator McElyea was assigned to the FBI Tampa Division/ Orlando Residential Agency’s Innocent Images National Initiative Task Force, which targets the online sexual exploitation of children. Investigator McElyea has 23 years of law enforcement experience.

Christopher McFadden
Chris is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago.  He has prosecuted numerous sex offenders and tried more than one dozen cases, including the first jury trial in the Midwest involving the failure to register under the Adam Walsh Act.  Chris has been an AUSA since 2005, first in San Diego and now in Chicago, where he is currently a member of his office’s Narcotics and Gangs Section.

Nicole McPherson
Nicole McPherson has been with the U.S. Marshals Service since 1997.  In 2006, she was permanently assigned to the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, where she helped establish a sex offender apprehension team and successfully prosecute the Midwest’s first jury trial under the Adam Walsh Act.  In 2008, she was permanently assigned to the Sex Offender Investigative Branch in the Chicago office.  Nicole is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in criminal justice.

Sarah Migas
Sarah Migas obtained her MSW in 2007 from Dominican University.  She is a fourteen-year veteran of the field of social work and also taught in the Chicago Public School System.  She is currently assigned as the Internet Safety Specialist for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.  Additionally, Ms. Migas is an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Dominican University.  Ms. Migas has a long history of working as an educator and social worker on behalf of children both locally and globally. Ms. Migas has spent time in diverse roles, in varied settings working on ensuring the welfare of children.  That work has included direct service as a Child Advocate in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Fairbanks, Alaska, as a Treatment Counselor in a residential facility for children in Portland, Oregon, and as a Child Welfare Specialist at Catholic Charities in Chicago, Illinois.

Laurel Mills
Laurel Mills is the Chief Inspector of the United States Marshals Service National Sex Offender Targeting Center.  Chief Inspector Mills has served in the Sex Offender Investigations Unit at USMS Headquarters since August of 2006.  Chief Mills has also served as the USMS Liaison to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children since June of 2003.  As the liaison to NCMEC Chief Mills established a national ongoing initiative “Operation Pick-up” in which the USMS adopts missing child cases that have a fugitive nexus.  Operation Pick-up has resulted in the location of over 200 children because of USMS involvement.  Since joining the USMS in 1991, she also served in the District of Columbia District and Superior Courts.  During this tenure, Inspector Mills worked on two multi-agency violent fugitive task forces, was a district Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force liaison and was the USMS liaison to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Joint Operations Command Center.

Alana Minton
Alana Minton has been a prosecutor with the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office for thirteen years.  Seven of those years have been devoted specifically to prosecuting sexual and serious physical child abuse cases.  She has been the Chief Prosecutor in the Crimes Against Children Unit since 2007.  Alana received the 2009 Team Excellence Award for Prosecution from the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas.

Cody Mitchell
Texas Ranger Cody Mitchell has been a Texas Peace Officer for approximately ten years.  He has severed in many capacities as a Peace Officer to include patrol, investigations, and as a criminal interdiction officer.  Ranger Mitchell has served the past five years with the Texas Department of Public Safety and has been assigned to duty stations in Orange, Chambers County, Baytown, and Austin.  Ranger Mitchell is currently assigned to the Texas Ranger Division.  During, his service with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Ranger Mitchell has worked closely with the FBI, Behavioral Analysis Unit-3 and Texas Attorney General’s Office to develop and implement the IPC program.  Ranger Mitchell has assisted with the instruction of Interdiction to Protect Children Program (IPC) to approximately 2000 Texas Troopers since September 2009.

Paul Mohler
Paul Mohler is ccurrently the Training Coordinator assigned to the Juvenile Crime Intervention (JCI), Criminal Prosecutions Division of the Texas Attorney General’s Office.  He is responsible for managing JCI training operations, including curriculum development, research, and presentation of a variety of training topics.  Paul’s areas of specific interest include emerging drug trends, Internet-based street gang activity, gang awareness and identification, and hate/extremist groups.  He has been recognized for his work in crime prevention and is the author of an award-winning youth crime prevention curriculum.

James Mooney
Jim Mooney is a Special Agent and Computer Forensic Agent with the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  He has been assigned to a child sexual exploitation unit for the past seven years.  His focus is in the areas of computer forensics, Internet child exploitation and undercover IRC
investigations.

Barry Moore
Detective Moore began his law enforcement career with the Mansfield Police Department in 1989.  He started out in Patrol and after several years transferred to work in Narcotics.  After a year in this assignment, he transferred to the Criminal Investigations Division, initially working in General Assignments and then later in Crimes Against Persons.

Michelle Morgan-Kelly
Michelle Morgan-Kelly is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  Prior to joining that office, Ms. Morgan-Kelly was an AUSA in the Northern District of California and served as that district’s Project Safe Childhood Coordinator.  From 2002 to 2005, she was a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in Washington, D.C.  As a specialist in child exploitation prosecutions, Ms. Morgan-Kelly has lectured extensively, including numerous presentations to representatives of former Soviet republics that are developing anti-child exploitation legislation.  Ms. Morgan-Kelly previously litigated intellectual property cases at Skadden, Arps, and clerked for United States District Court Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr. in Wilmington, Delaware.  Ms. Morgan-Kelly graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University School of Law in 1997, and her undergraduate degree in Russian was obtained in 1990 from Oberlin College.

Nathan Mousselli
Nathan Mousselli is a Special Agent with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York City. He has 13 years of combined Law Enforcement and Military (United States Marine Corps) experience. Prior to his law enforcement career, Nathan was a computer operations manager, information technology (IT) specialist and network administrator. Nathan graduated from The Pennsylvania State University and is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) by the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialist. He holds numerous other certifications. Nathan has testified as an expert witness in federal court and has conducted exams on PCs, Macs, iPhones, RAIDs, PDAs and numerous other storage devices.

Kathleen Muldoon
Kathleen Muldoon is an Assistant State’s Attorney with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Illinois. She is currently the Deputy Chief of the Sex Crimes Division.  Ms. Muldoon has prosecuted all felonies including arsons, aggravated batteries and murders.  For the last 8 years she has focused solely on the prosecution of technology facilitated crimes against children including child pornography, human trafficking of minors, and sexual exploitation of children.  Ms. Muldoon is cross-designated as a Special United States Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois. She is the commander of the Cook County ICAC Task Force and serves as the Chair of the ICAC Legal Group.  Ms. Muldoon has provided numerous training for prosecutors and law enforcement officers on various topic including search and seizure, forensic interviewing and computer forensics. 

Joe Mullins
Joe Mullins is a Forensic Imaging Specialist with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Joe works in the Forensic Services Unit where his duties include age progressing long term missing children, age regression of investigators to assist in their online investigations, facial reconstructions of unknown skeletal remains, soft tissue reconstructions and fugitive updates. He has done presentations, workshops, demonstrations and assists in the training of other Forensic Artists. He has received training from The FBI Academy, University of Oklahoma and the University of Dundee. His education is in graphic design and fine art. He studied at the Savannah College of Art & Design and has a degree from James Madison University. Joe is an active member of the International Association for Identification and is currently a member of the Forensic Art Subcommittee. Joe has been with NCMEC since July 1999.

Joel Muro
Dr. Muro is an assistant professor of Counseling and Development at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. Dr. Muro has presented about Ethics as well as other subject locally, in the state, nationally and internationally.  He is published regarding child therapy and school counseling nationally and internationally.  He has received several awards for his teaching and research, most recently the Mary Mason Lyon Award at Texas Woman’s University for Outstanding Junior Faculty Member for the entire Texas Woman’s University System.  Dr. Muro and his wife, Dr. lamer Muro, also have a private practice in Denton.  When not working, Dr. Muro loves spending time with his daughter, Eliana; his two basset hounds, Eeyore and Ned; and watching the Rangers and Red Sox.

Neil Nelson
Commander Neil Nelson of the St. Paul (MN) Police Department is a 32-year veteran of that department, an experienced homicide investigator and a nationally recognized law enforcement trainer. He is currently the commander of the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. He has taught courses on electronically recorded interviews to departments and agencies in states including, but not limited to, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, West Virginia, New Jersey, and Maryland.

Ed Neunlist
Ed Neunlist began his Federal career as a Naval Architect with the US Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).  His NAVSEA assignments included the Hydromechanics Laboratory at the US Naval Academy, The US Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, MD, and numerous ship designs and overhauls.  After receiving his Masters in Social Work he again worked for the US Navy in the Family Advocacy Program, which is the Navy’s domestic violence program.  In 2001 Ed was selected to manage the Family Advocacy Program at the Joint Maritime Facility, Cornwall, UK.  He joined EOUSA in September 2003 and has served as an EAP Counselor, the Deputy EAP Administrator, and in 2007 was selected as the EAP Administrator. He is also is adjunct faculty member at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science. 

Brenda Nichols
Brenda Nichols is a twenty-seven year veteran of Dallas Police Department with 22 years in a supervisory capacity as Sergeant of Police.  She has worked and supervised in Patrol, Personnel in Applicant Processing, Youth & Family Crimes Division (juvenile processing and investigation of crimes against children).  Brenda has more than thirteen years spent investigating and supervising the Missing Persons Squad, including Runaways.  Her unit’s average caseload is 8,500 cases per year.  She is presently supervising the Child Abuse Unit.

Mitchell Nixon
Mitchell Nixon serves as Security Director: Law Enforcement Systems at TLO, providing training and assistance to investigators and prosecutors with products involving the online exploitation of children.  Nixon recently served as Commander of the North Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force from 2003 to 2009, actively involved with Operation Fairplay and its predecessors.  Nixon’s prior service includes numerous positions in the capacity of K9 supervisor of the Traffic Unit and patrol officer with undercover duties in the Special Operations Unit, targeting street level narcotics sales and violent crimes. Additionally, Nixon served on various state and federal committees throughout his distinguished career.  Nixon attended the University of Florida.

John O’Brien
John O’Brien serves as Chief of the Violent and Organized Crime Unit.  Until April 2010, as the Project Safe Childhood and currently the Project Innocence Lost Coordinator, John held responsibility for oversight of child exploitation prosecutions in the Eastern District of Michigan.  Prior to joining the US Attorneys Office in 2002 he was a state prosecutor for 13 years where he gained extensive trial experience. While there he was assigned to the felony trial division and was responsible for the prosecution of homicides, rapes, child abuse and child sexual assaults, and other major felony offenses.  From 1993 until 1995, he served in a unit that focused exclusively on sex crimes against children. From 1997 until 2002 he was the Chief Assistant Prosecutor.  John holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Oakland University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Detroit College of Law.  

Felicia W. Oliphant
Felicia Oliphant is an Assistant District Attorney for the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in Dallas, Texas.  She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and the University of Houston Law Center.  She has been a prosecutor since 1999, and is currently Chief Prosecutor of the Child Abuse Division.  Ms. Oliphant tries complex litigation cases, typically involving the deaths of children.  She also supervises a team of twenty-four prosecutors and investigators who investigate and prosecute child sexual and physical abuse cases.  Ms. Oliphant has lectured at numerous local and national conferences on a various child abuse issues.

Lindsey Olson
Lindsey Olson is the CyberTipline Program Manager at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).  She has been with NCMEC for nine years and is responsible for the daily operations of all aspects of the CyberTipline as well as the management of a staff of approximately 20 analysts.  She is also responsible for ESP issues as they relate to reporting to the CyberTipline. She has participated in numerous law enforcement investigative training programs on high technology crimes, online child exploitation, as well as investigative and analytical skill development.  She has provided extensive technical assistance to law enforcement in the United States, as well as abroad, on cases of child sexual exploitation, especially Internet crimes against children.

Elizabeth Page
Elizabeth Page, LMSW became a crime victim in 1988 when she was shot at work and paralyzed as a result.  She completed her Masters in Social Work in 1991. She is cofounder of Disabled Crime Victims Assistance, Inc. and provides assistance to crime victims with disabilities. Elizabeth has presented at numerous conferences including Texas Crime Victims Clearinghouse conferences regarding the needs and services of disabled crime victims. She currently works part time at Cook Children’s Medical Center as a Social Worker and has worked as a medical Social Worker for a number of years.

Wanda Page
Wanda Page is the Founder and Executive Director of Disabled Crime Victim Assistance, Inc., a non-profit organization specializing in assisting disabled crime victims. In 1988 Wanda’s daughter was shot and paralyzed. Wanda started working as a crime victim’s advocate in 1989. She has presented trainings at numerous conferences including the Texas Crime Victims Clearinghouse conferences and many other crime victim conferences throughout Texas. Wanda received the Program Award for Exemplary Victim Assistance Program in 2001 from the Texas Crime Victim Clearinghouse.

Rob Parrish
Rob Parrish began his legal career with the Utah Attorney General’s Office in 1980.  Through many years of work as an appellate and trial attorney, he gravitated to the field of child abuse and child maltreatment, becoming a nationally recognized expert in the physical abuse and murder of children.  After spending 20 years with the Attorney General’s Office, Rob then spent a 2- year sabbatical as the Deputy Director of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome.  He then returned to government law practice as a Guardian ad Litem, representing abused and neglected children in juvenile court between 2002 and 2007.  He is now prosecuting criminal cases again as a Deputy Salt Lake County District Attorney, and his work involves both general felony prosecution and child abuse homicide prosecution.  Rob presents training for all professionals on a wide range of child maltreatment issues, is on the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and co-edited the book Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children with Drs. Lori Frasier, Kay Rauth-Farley and Randell Alexander in 2006.

Chris Peale
Chris Peale is the stepfather of the victim in the Vicky series of sexually abusive images that have been widely distributed on the Internet.  Regrettably, he has five years experience leading his family through the heartache and trauma of having one of his children victimized by child abuse, child rape, and child pornography by her biological father, and re-victimized through one of the most downloaded child pornography series on the Internet. Mr. Peale has a bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice, and has worked for the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for 17 years.

David Peifer
Detective Lieutenant David Peifer, Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is a member and the supervisor of a Task Force (Operation Triad) which directs its efforts in the area of Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) and is comprised of federal, state, and local law enforcement. The task force is responsible for conducting undercover online investigations, responding to complaints regarding children sexually exploited via the Internet, conducting community education programs, and monitoring the Internet for the bartering in child pornography. Lieutenant Peifer has been a law enforcement officer for 29 years and the supervisor of the Delaware County District Attorney’s Criminal Investigation Division’s Child Abuse Unit for 10 years. During this time he has investigated hundreds of incidents of child abuse (including child sexual abuse) and child pornography. He has received over 900 hours of training in the field of child physical and sexual abuse as well as the use of the Internet by sexual offenders to seduce, entice, and gain access to children for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Lieutenant Peifer’s experience includes areas of investigation that deal with child pornography and the characteristics of various child molester profiles. He is currently on the board of directors for the National ICAC Program and Co-Chairman of the training committee. Lieutenant Peifer attended West Chester University and is a graduate of the 174th session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA.

Phylip Peltier
Mr. Peltier began his law enforcement career at the San Diego Police Department in 1974.  He retired as a District Attorney Investigator in 2003.  He is a California P.O.S.T. Master Instructor. In California, he presents designs and coordinates numerous trainings.  An expert in the investigation of suspicious burn injuries since 1981, Phylip has been training professionals nationally and internationally for more than 30 years.  He is a published author and his information is shared and included in numerous medical and investigative publications.  Phylip has testified in many states and did qualify to testify in Australia.  He continues to research, train and consult throughout the world in the area of suspicious burn injuries and other related subjects.  He has previously presented at the Crimes against Children Conference.

Donna Pence
Donna M. Pence was the first female special agent for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, appointed in 1976. For two years prior to her Bureau employment she was a patrol officer for the Metro Nashville Park Police. She is a graduate of Belmont University with a B. S. in Criminal Justice. During her 25 years with the Bureau, her assignments included undercover agent, homicide, sex crimes investigations, and child abuse investigations. She supervised the TBI’s Drug Enforcement Unit and the Training and Recruitment Unit. Since 1985, she has lectured at state, national, and international levels on the investigation of child maltreatment and child death. She is a member of the FBI National Academy Associates, a former board member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and was co-chair of APSAC’s task force on the first guidelines on investigative interviewing of child victims. She has authored, co-authored or contributed chapters in numerous publications on child abuse investigations. This includes a book, TEAM INVESTIGATION OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: THE UNEASY ALLIANCE with Charles Wilson.   Since January 2002, Ms. Pence has been with the Academy for Professional Excellence, a program of San Diego State University Foundation, working with the Southern Region Public Child Welfare Training Academy. She trains and develops training on issues related to the identification and investigation of child maltreatment, neglect, and child death. She serves on the San Diego County Child Death Review Team, the board of the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and is the chair of the California Network of Child Advocacy Centers.

John Penn
John Penn II is Senior Solutions Architect for Intelligence, Investigation and Law Enforcement Technologies at Adobe Systems, in San Jose, California. He spent 11 years at Adobe as a Senior Computer Scientist working on Photoshop and is now focused on the development of tools, techniques and training for the intelligence and law enforcement community as well as for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Mr. Penn has a history in the technology sector extending 30 years. He has been working to foster communication between law enforcement and industry. He hopes his efforts will build a better understanding of law enforcement challenges in industry, and bring a better understanding of technology to the law enforcement and judicial system.

Chris Perez
Chris Perez is a seasoned sex crimes investigator who has served the Chandler (Arizona) Police Department for 13 years. Mr. Perez has managed complex internet based investigations and works undercover to investigate online sex offenders.  Mr. Perez was the lead detective for the Chandler Rapist case, a nationally recognized serial child rapist.

Dave Perlman
Dave Perlman is an Assistant Attorney General with the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice.   He has given over 2,000 presentations to police officers and prosecutors on constitutional issues.  Dave also serves as a consultant with Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) and teaches a graduate course in police management at Marquette University.

John Pettus
Mr. Pettus is currently a Senior Forensic Examiner at the North Texas Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory (NTRCFL).  Prior to working at the NTRCFL, John served as a police officer for the Richardson, Texas Police Department for 16 years prior to going to the work for the FBI at the NTRCFL.  He is certified to conduct forensic examinations on Windows based computers and cell phones.  Mr. Pettus is the Training Coordinator for the NTRCFL and is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University.   

John Pirics
John Pirics is a Detective with the Carmel Police Department in Indiana.   He has been investigating cases involving the physical and sexual abuse of children for seven years. In 2007, Detective Pirics was assigned to the Hamilton County Metro Child Exploitation Task Force where he focuses on undercover child exploitation investigations.  Mr. Pirics is a graduate of Indiana State University. 

James Podboy
Senior Special Agent James Podboy is assigned to the Cyber Crimes/Fraud group with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) New Orleans, LA office.  Agent Podboy’s primary work focuses on the computer forensic analysis of evidence related to child exploitation investigations.  Prior to becoming part of the ICE Computer Forensic Program, Agent Podboy worked as a case agent and certified Internet undercover agent in Shreveport, LA investigating a wide variety of customs and immigration cases.  The majority of Agent Podboy’s investigations dealt with the trans-border production and possession of images of child exploitation.  In 2006, Agent Podboy assisted in the development of the Northwest Louisiana Internet Crimes Task Force spearheaded by Bossier City Marshal Johnny Wyatt.  Agent Podboy also served as a guest lecturer at the International Law Enforcement Academy in El Salvador and is currently an adjunct faculty member at ITT Technical College.  James lives in New Orleans, LA with his wife and twin daughters.  He holds a degree in Psychology from Loyola University of New Orleans.

David Podeszwa
David Podeszwa, MD is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon working in Dallas. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Podeszwa completed his training at Wayne State University in Detroit and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Podeszwa has presented regionally and nationally on topics related to pediatric orthopaedic management.

Shantal Rands Poovala
Shantal is the manager for consumer products legal support. She is also a leading member of the Google Child Safety Team and works closely with the Engineering, Product, and Legal teams within Google to build cutting-edge tools and develop procedures and systems to eliminate child sexual abuse images from Google's products. Shantal provides guidance to find ways to further child safety online, and liaises with external stakeholders. She manages Google's relationship with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and reporting for child sexual abuse images.

Tom Popken
Tom has been a Detective with the Dallas Police Department and has served for 30 years. He has worked in both the Narcotics and Patrol Divisions and spent eight years as an instructor at the Dallas Police Academy.  Tom has a Bachelor of Science degree in Law Enforcement and Sociology from Mankato State University in Minnesota.

Dan Powers
Dan Powers is a clinical social worker and currently serves as Senior Vice President of Clinical and Administrative Services for Children's Advocacy Center of Collin County in Plano, Texas As Senior VP he is responsible for clinical operations and program development as well as directing the Advocacy Center’s clinical internship and training program. Dan has over 20 years of experience working within the field of child abuse, sex offenders and family violence. In addition, he provides expert court testimony and consultation related to child maltreatment and sex offenders. Dan presents workshops locally as well as on a state and national level in many areas related to multi-disciplinary team approach of responding to child abuse. He is a member of the Texas Children’s Justice Act Task Force and in 2008 Dan was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to serve as a professional member of the Texas Council on Sex Offender Treatment.

Derek Prestridge
Sergeant Derek Prestridge has served with the Texas Department of Public Safety for 15 years.  He is currently assigned to the Department’s Education Training and Research Bureau.  There, he has worked closely with the FBI, Behavioral Analysis Unit-3 and Texas Attorney General’s Office to develop and implement the Interdiction for the Protection of Children (IPC) program.  He has instructed IPC to approximately 2000 Texas Troopers since September 2009.

Eren Price
Eren Price is an Assistant District Attorney in the Dallas County District Attorney’s office where she has been assigned to the Child Abuse Division for the last nine y